Chapter 6
"WELL, Tony, if you are looking for motives for the murder, you have two now."
"Two, Chief? I don't get you."
"Yes. There is the possibility of the Virginius motive."
"Virginius?"
"Yes― the father who places such store on chastity that he would kill a violated daughter. Rare in these days— but you have heard Edmund L. Foster speak twice for himself."
"I hadn't thought of that― it doesn't sound reasonable― and yet―"
"Ah yes, Tony! There is always that 'and yet!' "
"But the other motive?"
"Bruce Foster might have killed the girl to get her share of the inheritance. He would not be the first brother to do such a thing."
"That is a horrible thought― a brother to kill a sister for money?"
Instead of replying, my chief told me to bring Bruce Foster into the office.
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