XXIII
SIMON'S VIEWS
"Well," said Mr. Rattar deliberately, "I think myself that the actual evidence is very slight and extremely inclusive."
"You mean the direct evidence afforded by the unfastened window, position of the body, table said to have been overturned, and so forth?"
"Exactly. That evidence is slight, but so far as it goes it seems to me to point to entry by the door and to the man having been in the house for some little time previously."
"Well?" said Carrington in an encouraging voice.
"So much for the direct evidence. I may be wrong, but that is my decided opinion. No bad characters are known to the police to have been in the county at that time, and there was no robbery."
"Apparently confirming the direct evidence?"
"Decidedly confirming it—or so it seems to me."
"Then you think there is something in the popular theory that the present baronet and Miss Farmond were the guilty parties?"
Simon was silent for a moment, but his face was unusually expressive.
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