“Do you think that robbery had anything to do with it?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because so far as I can determine nothing has been taken. Nor do the servants find anything missing.”
Nick began pacing the floor.
Little as he had learned of the case, it had already developed some strange things.
Crimes usually run in channels somewhat similar, but here had one been committed that was entirely outside of anything embraced in his own experience or heard of in that of a brother professional. At least this was promised, which fact was rather calculated than otherwise to give the case a deep interest for him.
That a crime had been committed there was no question, for on every side could be found evidences of a struggle. But had that crime been of the grave one of murder? Without the presence of a dead body this was impossible to say.
Finally Nick shook his head and growled something under his breath.
To one who knew him well this would have implied that he was not at all pleased with the train of his thoughts.