“Yes. I would have called with him about ten o’clock.”
“What’s the big idea? What do you suspect?”
“I have not quite liked the looks of that nurse, Garside, from the start,” Nick glibly explained.
“That so?”
“She don’t look good to me. I’m far from sure that she has not been drugging Madame Clayton,” Nick added.
“But what could she gain from that?”
“I’ve got to dig deeper into the case, Garside, before I can answer that question.”
“It’s doubly necessary, then, for us to find Madame Clayton.[Pg 37]”
“Exactly.”
“We may succeed in doing so. She surely could not have gone very far in her weak and abnormal condition.”