"No, I couldn't get up!" the Doctor still insisted, with strange
violence for a man who had already admitted such damning knowledge.
The detective's face was a study in disbelief.
"You know where that money is, Wells, and I'm going to find it!"
This last taunt seemed to goad the Doctor beyond endurance.
"Good God!" he shouted recklessly. "Do you suppose if I knew
where it is, I'd be here? I've had plenty of chances to get away!
No, you can't pin anything on me, Anderson! It isn't criminal to
have known that room is here."
He paused, trembling with anger and, curiously enough, with an
anger that seemed at least half sincere.
"Oh, don't be so damned virtuous!" said the detective brutally.
"Maybe you haven't been upstairs but--unless I miss my guess, you
know who was!"
The Doctor's face changed a little.
"What about Richard Fleming?" persisted the detective scornfully.
The Doctor drew himself up.
"I never killed him!" he said so impressively that even Bailey's
faith in his guilt was shaken. "I don't even own a revolver!"
The detective alone maintained his attitude unchanged.
"You come with me, Wells," he ordered, with a jerk of his thumb
toward the door. "This time I'll do the locking up."
The Doctor, head bowed, prepared to obey. The detective took up
a candle to light their path. Then he turned to the others for
a moment.
"Better get the young lady to bed," he said with a gruff
kindliness of manner.
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