“Jeekes? Do you mean Parrish’s secretary?
“It’s funny your asking that. As a matter of fact, it was through Jeekes that I heard the lady was dead. I was in Le Hagen’s office one day when Jeekes came in, and Le Hagen told me Jeekes had come to pay in a cheque for the cost of the funeral and the transport of the body to France.”
“This was six or seven months ago, you say? I take it, then, that any allowance that Parrish was in the habit of making to this woman has ceased?”
“I tell you the lady is dead!”
“Then what would you say if I informed you that Mr. Jeekes had declared that these payments were still going on ...”
Robin shrugged his shoulders.
“I should say he was lying ...”
“I agree. But why?”
“Whom did he tell this to?”
“Miss Trevert!”