"Was Baptiste aware that such a knife was in the room?"
"Not that I know of."
"When, to your knowledge, was Baptiste last in the house?"
"He has not been in the house for more than three years."
"Then he couldn't have known the knife was there."
"Well, unless he discovered it when he entered the room."
"Providing he entered the room. Was he aware also that the preacher occupied this particular room? Is it not reasonable to suppose that he would not know where the preacher slept if he had not been in the house for three years?"
"But he could have looked around."
"Possibly. But how do you account for the girl's body being here in the room also. Where did she sleep?"
"Downstairs near her mother. It is my theory that she was disturbed by the sound of some one walking, went upstairs, and was in time to see the tragedy of her father, and was in turn murdered by her husband."