CHAPTER TEN
CarolineCaroline said: “Thank you for treating me like an intelligent human being. I don’t mean that I’m more intelligent than the others, but they haven’t my reasons for thinking that you didn’t merely happen to pass by. Cousin Mott told you this afternoon, didn’t he, that we thought Alden tore the picture out of the book?”
“And that you thought Alden killed your dog.”
“He didn’t agree with me about that. Let’s sit down, Mr. Gamadge; but first will you close the door into the hall? You’ll be able to see straight through the front drawing room; we shan’t have eavesdroppers from that direction.”
Gamadge closed the door; it faced the entrance to the library, and as he came back to the fire and sat down opposite Caroline he wondered afresh why Mott Fenway had been killed. He w
