“What will they do now, the police, I mean?” I asked Lewis as we got our things in the hall.
“They’ll wait until the inquest next week, and then the jury will bring in a verdict of suicide while of an unsound mind,” he said. “In most cases that’s rather hard on the relatives. It implies a strain of insanity in the family. In many cases the suicide may have been the sanest act the person ever performed.”
I was a little startled at this hardened attitude from Lewis, but I had to admit it described Scoville’s act truly. It was the safest way out, I added.
“Think so?” he remarked with a barely stifled yawn. “Ah well, I dare say you’re right. And now, I have some loose ends to tie up, and the diamond.”
I was a little reluctant to leave him until I’d seen the very last of this thing. I had p
