Robinson grinned.
"I'm going slow on calling anybody names, but I haven't forgotten that there's been another crime in this house. Howells was killed in that room, too. I would like to believe he could return as Mr. Blackburn has."
Blackburn looked up.
"What's that? Who's Howells?"
And as Robinson told him of the second crime he sank back in his chair again, whimpering from time to time. His fear was harder to watch.
"Might I suggest," Graham said, "that Howells isn't out of the case yet?
It would be worth looking into."
"By all means," Robinson agreed.
Rawlins coughed apologetically.
"I asked them about that at the office. Howells was taken to his home in
Boston to-day. The funeral's to be to-morrow."
"Then," Robinson said, "we're confined for the present to this end of the case. The facts I have tell me that two murders have been committed in this house. It is still my first duty to convict the guilty man."