“Anger against his son of course.”
“Yet he wrote him affectionate letters to Paris?”
“So Jack Renauld says, but he cannot produce them.”
“Well, let us pass from that.”
“Now we come to the day of the tragedy. You have placed the events of
the morning in a certain order. Have you any justification for that?”
“I have ascertained that the letter to me was posted at the same time
as the telegram was despatched. Masters was informed he could take a
holiday shortly afterwards. In my opinion the quarrel with the tramp
took place anterior to these happenings.”
“I do not see that you can fix that definitely—unless you question
Mademoiselle Dabreuil again.”
“There is no need. I am sure of it. And if you do not see that, you see
nothing, Hastings!”