18. FLANNERY’S BIG SCENE
Greatly pleased with himself, Captain Flannery sat down behind his desk. His summing up of the case against Beetham seemed, to his way of thinking, without a flaw. He beamed at the assembled company.
“Everything is going to work out fine,” he continued. “To-morrow evening in this room I stage my big scene, and if we don’t get something out of it, then I’m no judge of human nature. First, I bring in Major Durand. I tell him Eve Durand has been found and is on her way here, and while we’re waiting I go back to the question of how she got out of India. I plant in his mind a suspicion of Beetham. Then I bring the woman into the room—after fifteen years’ suffering and anxiety, he sees his wife at last. What’s he going to think? What’ll he ask himself—and her? Where’s
