Helen's devotion to Jimmie, her insistence upon an
autopsy being held indicated her innocence. She had stated at the
inquest that she had not known the burglar's identity; Kent paused
as the thought occurred to him - the twins had swapped identities
on the witness stand, and therefore Helen had not been called upon
to answer that question! To the best of his recollection she had
only been asked if she had recognized Jimmie in the court room and
not at her home. But Helen it was who had summoned Officer O'Ryan
on discovering the burglar and had him arrested. She surely would
never have done so had she guessed his identity.
As for Barbara McIntyre - Kent's heart beat faster at thought of
the girl he loved so well. Circumstantial evidence had seemed for
a time to involve her in the crime. Grimes' outrageous insinuation
that he had been assaulted on account of confiding to her that the
box of aconitine pills had been left on the hall table where any one
could get them, was the outcome of his battered condition. When
physical strength returned, the butler would forget his
hallucinations.
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