CHAPTER 3THE ONLY WITNESS
Mr. Parks seemed to be greatly agitated by this intelligence, and it was some time before he regained his self-command. Then Nick asked him how it happened he had had no suspicions on reading the description of the wounded woman in the morning papers.
“Read that,” he said, thrusting a paper into Nick’s hands. “Does that describe her?”
“It is all wrong,” said Nick.
“And that picture?”
“It is a pure fake. There has been no opportunity of getting a picture of her.”
“The description and the picture caught my eye before I read about the diamonds. Therefore I never thought of my previous suspicions of my wife, except to be thankful that they had been proved groundless.”
“Why did you suspect her at first?”
“In one word, because it seemed utterly impossible that a
