"Could she have been trying to spell out something? If they were letters they would read d, i and a.
They're the first three letters of Diana's name."
"Well, of course that seemed the simple explanation. She might have been trying to ask us to take care of
the child." I suggested this to Braile. He shook his head.
"She knew I'd do that," he said. "No, it was something else."
A little after Robbins had gone, Ricori called up. I told him of Walters' death. He was greatly moved.
And after that came the melancholy business of the autopsy. The results were precisely the same as in
that of Peters. There was nothing whatever to show why the girl had died.
At about four o'clock the next day Ricori again called me on the telephone.
"Will you be at home between six and nine, Dr. Lowell?" There was suppressed eagerness in his voice.