CHAPTER 17Inspector Grayson made his report to his Superintendent.
“Everything quite straightforward as far as I can see. The girl was abnormal and must have been a great trial, yet they really seem to have been fond of her, and to be genuinely distressed about her death. The married couple, cook and butler, and Florrie Bowyer, daily housemaid, all say she never had a scolding or a rough word from anyone—and she must have tried them high. There’s nothing in it, except that Mr. Trent comes in for the property. He says there was a considerable fortune, but it isn’t what it was.”
“There’s precious few things that are,” said the Superintendent.
Whilst this conversation was going on—that is to say, at the agreeable hour when the curtains have been drawn and a pleasantly shaded light diffuses
