CHAPTER 111
“I repeat, I simply do not understand you.”
Macdonald was talking to Judith again, after Walter Vanstead had stormed in vain against the C.I.D. man’s unwarrantable interference. To Judith, Macdonald had repeated the advice which had so incensed her uncle.
“Then I will put things so plainly that you won’t be able to avoid understanding them, Miss Vanstead. I am here to investigate the possibility that two murders have been committed. Your father agrees with me that there is more than a possibility that both his son and his grandson have been murdered. Frail though he is, dying though he knows himself to be, your father’s intelligence is unimpaired. He has thought a great deal about this problem, and I think it is not improbable that he has an idea of what actually happened. N
