CHAPTER VIII WHERE IS NOGI?––––––––
TWENTY-FOUR hours later Cray, the District Prosecuting Attorney, stood in the Waring study.
The body of the master had been removed, and to Cray’s regret he had not seen it before the embalmer’s work had removed the red ring on the forehead.
“It was a sign,” he said to Morton, who was moodily listening. “A sign like that, left by the murderer, always means revenge.”
“You agree to murder, then?” Morton spoke eagerly, glad to have his theory corroborated.
“What else? Look here, Morton; it’s got to be either murder or suicide, hasn’t it? Yes? Well, then, to which of the two do the greater number of clues point? Sum up. For suicide we have only the locked room argument. I admit I don’t know how anyone could get in or out of this study, but, as I say, th
