CHAPTER 14I DON’T know how much of what finally turned out to be true Lieutenant Kelly knew at this point. I’ve accused him since of pretending to know a whole lot more than he really did. He assumes, on such an occasion, an expression that is what I imagine a composite photograph of Mona Lisa and the Sphinx would have, and says something about knowing how and when to take the jumps. He certainly acted as if he had the whole thing sewed up tight, as he himself put it. Having no reputation as a lieutenant of detectives to uphold, I’m quite willing to admit that I was totally bewildered by the whole affair. Although at this point even I really had nearly all the essential clues in my hands.
Lieutenant Kelly’s method of bringing up each person who’d been involved at any point in the affair,
