“Decidedly so.”
“Will you tell me in just what way it is a predicament?”
“Jimmy has practically defied me. Out there in the summerhouse I actually put the handcuffs on him, thinking that he might weaken; but not a bit of it. He was as cool as a cucumber. He not only insisted that he could prove the death of Jimmy Duryea, but that he could prove his own identity as Ledger Dinwiddie. He actually dared me to arrest him—and under the circumstances I thought it best not to do so—till later. Nan, where is the room you occupy in this house?”
“I have a suite of three rooms. They are in the south wing. Why?”
“I want to go to them. I want to examine them—thoroughly.”
“Why?”
“Because I think that Jimmy has hidden those jewels there.”
“What; in my rooms?”
“Yes.”
“Why should he do that?”