“No, I kept that back. We saw Martin Oakley and her maid yesterday, but we didn’t see her until this morning.”
“Her maid? Had she anything to say?”
There was a sparkle of malice in his eyes.
“Only that Mrs. Oakley committed bigamy when she married Oakley—the first husband being Glen Porteous alias Gregory Porlock.”
“Dear me!”
Frank produced another of his type-written sheets.
“She listened to a conversation between her mistress and Porlock on Wednesday afternoon. You’d better read my notes.”
When she had done so she looked up gravely and said,
“So he was blackmailing her too.”
“Undoubtedly. She doesn’t admit it—she doesn’t admit anything. She just cries and says, ‘Please don’t tell Martin.’ I wish you could have been there, because you would probably have known whether she was put
