“No.”
“I should hate to have committed a crime and know that you were on my track.”
Nick smiled.
“You are not the only person who entertains that idea! More than one criminal would prefer to hear that the Evil One himself was pursuing him than that I was. But where is the housekeeper?”
“Downstairs.”
“I want to see her.”
A few minutes later he had an interview with the woman.
Whatever his suspicions as regarded other members of Mr. Field’s household, this woman he believed to be perfectly innocent. That she had been devoted to her master’s service he felt no particle of doubt.
He had seen her before, when he questioned all the servants.
She it was who had been the one to discover that there were strangers in the house, which incident had made it necessary in the estimation of the criminals that all the servants should be bound.