"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!