CHAPTER 16“—That surprises you, doctor?”
For a long two minutes, Jonas Smith M.D. said nothing at all. He sat in a virtual state of suspended animation, staring stupidly across his desk, trying mechanically to make up his mind whether what he thought he had heard Sergeant Digges say was what Sergeant Digges had in fact said.
What he thought he had heard him say was that the body he had seen in the Milnors’ cottage out at Ardundel Creek was the body of Franklin Grymes. That was so completely cockeyed he must have made some mistake. But Sergeant Digges was sitting there, looking at him with a kind of triumphant glaze over his alert hard-bitten countenance. There seemed to be no doubt he had said it, and moreover that he meant it.
“I thought maybe it would surprise you,” Sergeant Digges sa
