“Not unless it be the strange woman.”
“Humph! We must find that woman and learn more about her,” was the non-committal reply. “Chick, there is another character I want watched, and you’re the very one to do it.”
“Who?”
“The confidential clerk—Gay.”
“Oh, ho!”
“I don’t like him. Besides, there is a mystery about him.”
“Well?”
“He was absent from the building most of the day, but he managed to be in at the death.”
“Did you ask him what had brought him back at that particular time?”
“No.”