XIII BATES, THE BURGLAR––––––––
BROUGHT before the magistrate, Bates told a coherent though amazing story.
It seems he was Estelle’s lover, and had long ago persuaded her to let him know when Miss Carrington had a quantity of jewelry in the house, that he might essay a robbery. The plan was simple. Estelle had promised to slip downstairs at three o’clock and raise a window for his entrance, and later, but before anyone else was about, she was to slip down and lock it again. In the meantime, they assumed, the burglary would be quietly accomplished, their supposition being that Miss Carrington would be asleep in her bedroom and the boudoir easy access.
“You entered by the window, then, at what time?” asked Stone, who was doing most of the questioning.
“At quarter of four in the morning,”
