"
The detective turned and looked at her keenly.
"Miss Gertrude," he said, "if you and Miss Louise would only tell
me everything you know and surmise about this business, I
should be able to do a great many things. I believe I could find
your brother, and I might be able to--well, to do some other
things." But Gertrude's glance did not falter.
"Nothing that I know could help you to find Halsey," she said
stubbornly. "I know absolutely as little of his disappearance as
you do, and I can only say this: I do not trust Doctor Walker. I
think he hated Halsey, and he would get rid of him if he could."
"Perhaps you are right. In fact, I had some such theory myself.
But Doctor Walker went out late last night to a serious case in
Summitville, and is still there. Burns traced him there. We
have made guarded inquiry at the Greenwood Club, and through the
village. There is absolutely nothing to go on but this. On the
embankment above the railroad, at the point where we found the
machine, is a small house. An old woman and a daughter, who is
very lame, live there. They say that they distinctly heard the
shock when the Dragon Fly hit the car, and they went to the
bottom of their garden and looked over. The automobile was
there; they could see the lights, and they thought someone had
been injured. It was very dark, but they could make out two
figures, standing together. The women were curious, and,
leaving the fence, they went back and by a roundabout path down
to the road.
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