“Not if it was as I suppose, but as I know. I’ll tell you why I not only think but feel sure you’ll conceal nothing from me.”
“Well?”
“Because you’ll do anything to save your husband.”
“To save him?”
The emphasis which she put on the word “save” was a full confession to the astute detective. She realized it almost as soon as the three words were uttered.
But Nick’s next sentence somewhat relieved her mind, as well as mystified her.
“You think you saw him kill Estelle Langdon?”
“I think I saw him. Why——”
Again an accented word had made a confession, and she once more halted in confusion.
“I am anxious to get at the bottom of a conspiracy of some kind, and I can do it by having the benefit of your statement of just what happened in that room as you saw it from across the street.”