14/19 When he closed the window, I afterwards went into the hotel and had a drink in order to ask casually when Mr.Bolton intended to leave. I gathered--not directly, of course, but in a roundabout way--that he had arranged to go next morning and to send on his luggage. In the course of time I returned here and learned of the murder and the disappearance of the corpse of Inca Caxas. And now," Random stood up, "having admitted all this, perhaps you will believe me to be innocent." "You have no idea who murdered Bolton and placed his body in the packing case ?" asked Braddock, manifestly disappointed. No more than I have any idea of the person who placed the mummy case and its contents in Mrs.Jasher's garden." "Oh, you know that!" said Archie quickly. |