“Hasn’t Berjet got a family?” inquired Strange.
“The people next door say that Berjet’s wife and daughter are spending the winter at Palm Beach.”
“Ain’t they any servants?”
“All of the servants go home at night except Adolphe, the murdered man’s valet.”
“Did you find him?”
“No.”
“Was the front door, and the rest of the doors and windows in the house, locked?”
“The front door was not only unlocked but slightly ajar. The rest of the house was secured.”
“Do you not think it possible that the murderer might have slipped out of the front door while you were watching without being seen by you?”
“Absolutely not,” said O’Shane, emphatically. “I didn’t take my eye off the front of the house after you entered it until the men the major sent arrived. Mike watched the back of the house with equal care. Nobody could a-got out without one of us knowin’ it. If a murder’s been committed the murderer’s still in the house somewhere.”