It was proof positive that not only
he had been in the casket, but the sealed envelope also. Helen
McIntyre had left the envelope in his care. Mrs. Brewster and
Colonel McIntyre had both been present when the envelope was stolen
from him. Which of them had taken it? Which one had afterwards
secreted it in the Venetian casket? And which had brought it back
to the safe in his office?
Colonel McIntyre had been in his office within the hour - the
question was answered, and Kent's eyes brightened, then clouded
- Barbara had been there as well, and Grimes had stated that before
he received a knock-out blow in the McIntyre library he heard the
swish of skirts!
Kent laid his hand on the envelope. It was time that he found out
what it contained; but his finger, inserted under the flap, paused
as his eyes fell on the check bearing Mrs. Brewster's signature.
It was the check he had picked up from the floor of the McIntyre
limousine that morning and inadvertently carried away with him.
>From her signature his glance wandered to Sylvester's memorandum
pad; it was uncanny the way his eye picked out the letter "B" as he
stared at Clymer's note and its signature.
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