“Someone would have to know. Miss Duday offered the singular suggestion, to Mr. Goodwin, that Miss Eads had denied she had signed the document, or Mr. Hagh thought she was going to, and so he had to destroy her. That is doubly puerile. First, she had acknowledged that she had signed the document. Second, she had offered, through Mr. Irby, to pay one hundred thousand dollars in settlement of the claim — just last week. Whereupon Mr. Hagh, in a fit of pique, dashes to the airport for a plane to New York, flies here and kills her, after first lolling her maid to get a key, and flies back again. Does that sound credible?”
“No.”
“Then arrange it so it does. Why did Mr. Hagh kill his former wife?”
“I can’t tell you.”
“That’s a pity, since the simplest way for you people to make me doubt your guilt would be to offer an acceptable substitute. Have you one?”
“No.”
“Have you anything else to offer?”
“No.”
“Do you wish to make any comment on what has been said about Miss O’Neil?”
“I do not.”