We shall not attempt to follow his questions and their answers, inasmuch as nothing was developed that in any way changed the views he had adopted.
It may, however, be said that the answers he received to his questions left him in doubt as to the part that Timon had taken in the matter. He was not proved innocent, neither was he shown to have had guilty knowledge of the murder or other crime, whatever it was.
Nick now retired to an inner room with Barnes.
“Can you give me some information in regard to the private life of Mr. Field?” he asked that gentleman.
“What do you wish to know?”
“Everything.”
“That is to say, everything that could possibly have any bearing on the case.”
“I mean what I say—everything. In a case like this it is impossible to say what may or may not have bearing on the case. First of all, Mr. Field lived here alone?”
“He did.”
“Was he a bachelor?”