“That Mrs. Field was a sadly abused woman.”
“And yet you could make a friend of such a man?”
“I did not become acquainted with him until long afterward. I have known him only about six years, and as you can see he was a man much older than myself, and the friendship that existed between us was much like that of father and son. I could not hold any ill will against him for his treatment of his wife, no matter how bad it was, for I knew him only as one thoroughly repentant and desirous of repairing the damage he had done.”
“He was alone in the world?”
“Entirely so for all that I know to the contrary.”
“Who would benefit by his death? In other words, who would become the owner of this property on his decease?”
“I don’t know, unless his wife and child.”
“He had, then, made a will in their favor?”
“I am not sure of that, although I think such is the case.”
At that moment there came a ring at the doorbell.