“Again I ask why you think so?”

“Because somebody killed the dog last night.”

“The news does not surprise me.”

“You know who killed him?”

“Yes.”

“Who?”

“Wait a moment, doctor. What did Mackenzie want just now? To tell you his stepmother had been summoned to go to New York to-morrow by the Scotia Insurance Company to get the money on the policy of that company?”

“Why, yes; but——”

“And he wanted you to go along to furnish proofs of death, and to identify the widow?”

“Yes. Were you eavesdropping?”