CHAPTER X
POLPERROThe idea which like a whirlwind had upset all French’s previous assumptions was very simple. Was it possible that Earle’s theory and Earle’s book were really valuable, so valuable that they would make the name of their author? Was it possible that Campion should have known this and stolen the manuscript? And to enable him to get the benefit of his theft, could he have killed Earle?
Campion guilty of Earle’s murder! Here was something to think about! Surely the idea was too far-fetched? Campion was a reasonably successful man, comfortably off now and with an assured, if not a very brilliant, future. He had surely too much to lose to run the terrible risks of committing murder simply to gain professional fame?
French was not so sure. The man might be vain, and vanity is
