CHAPTER 9Mme. Storey questioned several of the servants with a view to learning if young Henry Varick had been in the house on the day before. All blandly denied it, nor could she entrap them into any admission.
“Lying,” she said coolly, when the last had gone. “Notice that they did not say, ‘I did not see him,’ but all said, ‘He was not here.’”
“Why not ask Mrs. Varick’s pretty secretary, Miss Gilsey?” I suggested. “She could tell you.”
“Quite,” said Mme. Storey, “and would immediately tell Henry that I had asked. I don’t want to put him on his guard. I want to meet him as if by accident, and fall into casual talk. If I am able to bring that about, don’t you dare to let a notebook appear. Remember all that passes as well as you can, and put it down afterwards.”
With Jarboe, my employe
