"Is that all?" asked Larose.
"No, they were out in that launch yesterday, all the morning. But there's nothing in that, for they were never more than a couple of miles out to sea, and they were fishing the whole time. Then Rising met the evening train at South-minster and took another elderly woman back to Marle House. She's undoubtedly the successor to the woman who went away the previous day!"
"Then you've really found out nothing!" said Larose.
"Oh, far from that!" exclaimed the inspector. "We know they're first class crooks, right enough, and that the wine and spirit business is only a blind. They can't be doing any proper trade for they didn't have a single customer either on Thursday or Friday and the phone was never used at all."
"Then there was no one in Marle House for those t
