”
“All we shall get,” said Ann Veronica. And I don't want anything of yours destroyed, Hoddy. You represent to me an enigma,
the solution of which has become the one desire of my life. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray. The mode of destruction makes no difference. “Yes. This, then,
was the woman from whom Hoddy would not have accepted a cup of water. “Who from?”
She met his eye for a second and her heart failed her. ”
“The inference is, then,” the detective said smoothly, “that this man obtained
admission to your rooms by means of a false key, that he burnt some papers here
and shot himself within a few moments of your return.
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