“I see. You are very sure of that, eh?”

Allen’s black eyes bored into the blue ones of his questioner for a moment.

“Oh, yes. I’m quite sure!”

“Do you happen to know of any quarrel between Harrison and anyone else, lately?”

“He—he rowed with a lot of people, I fancy.”

“Can you give us a specific instance—or several?”

“He rowed with his brother at meals, shouted at Miss Mount now and then, rowed both his daughters, too.”

“I see. Did you have a row with him yourself?”

Allen laughed.