"Not so bad as that, Miss Innes," Riggs said eagerly. "Nina Carrington

came from the town in California where Mr. Armstrong died. Why was the

doctor so afraid of her? The Carrington woman knew something. I lived

with Doctor Walker seven years, and I know him well. There are few

things he is afraid of. I think he killed Mr. Armstrong out in the

west somewhere, that's what I think. What else he did I don't

know--but he dismissed me and pretty nearly throttled me--for telling

Mr. Jamieson here about Mr. Innes' having been at his office the night

he disappeared, and about my hearing them quarreling."

"What was it Warner overheard the woman say to Mr. Innes, in the

library?" the detective asked me.

"She said 'I knew there was something wrong from the start. A man

isn't well one day and dead the next without some reason.'"

How perfectly it all seemed to fit!




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