“I’ve never known you wrong yet, sir.”
“Oh, I don’t say as much as that, Parkyns; but I’m going to make a definite assertion now, and I think you can depend upon it.”
The two detectives listened with rapt attention as the barrister continued.
“That woman no more committed suicide than I’ve done. It isn’t suicide at all. She was murdered.”
“Why do you think so?”
“Just think, Parkyns. The body is found nude.”
“Quite so, sir; but so was Miss Alvarez, and you’ve never said that case wasn’t suicide——”
“I agree, Parkyns, I never have said so; but when the body of Miss Alvarez was found in the bedroom of her flat, her clothes were there in the room. Now, it’s never dawned on you, or on the coroner or on the jury, that Miss Stableford’s clothes were not in the bedroom or in the hotel. There
