your master came home, to look in the chiffonier drawer to see if Mrs. Whittall's gun was there?"
"No, Madame. I never thought. I scarcely knew what I was doing."
"When did you first see Mr. Whittall?"
"He came running up the stairs to the bedroom where the...where the body was lying. He ordered us all out of the room. 'I must be alone with my dead!' he said. Those were his words. Very dramatic."
"Hm!" said Mme. Storey with a hard smile. "And then?"
"In just a minute he called me
case. Nobody wished to turn up anything peculiar."
"I had hoped that there would be enough in these papers to accomplish my purpose," said Mme. Storey gravely. "By showing them to a certain person, I mean. But there is not. So we must dig further into this business. It is not a job that I look forward to!"