CHAPTER 6Gouch
Lieutenant Griggs of the Rivertown state police had a short, square face which seldom showed other expression than a granite calm. But although the daylight lamp on Redfield’s studio worktable did not light up his features, which were in shadow, the shadow was not deep enough to hide the fact that the lieutenant’s brow was furrowed.
There were three comfortable couches in the studio, one flanking either end of the fireplace, in which a fire burned, and one beneath the east windows. Redfield lay on this last, his eyes closed and his pose one of exhaustion. Gamadge sat on the couch to the left of the hearth, and on the other, facing him, sat Mr. Ellsworth Mosson, State’s Attorney of Rivertown.
The studio was a splendid room, with a big rounded window along its south wall, a
