“Where were the diamonds during the evening?”
“In my trunk.”
Nick pondered a moment, and turned away, going to the door, from which he turned back to ask:
“Were the diamonds in your trunk when you went to bed?”
Charley laughed.
“No doubt of that,” he said. “I looked at them.”
Nick walked to and fro on the lawn until Chick came up.
“You found Bernice in consultation with Anton, I presume,” he said.
“Yes, they were in the orchard together.”