CHAPTER XXI

A DEPLETED HOUSEHOLD (_Friday, December 3; forenoon_) Markham brought us the news of Mrs. Greene’s death before ten o’clock the next morning. The tragedy had not been discovered until nine, when the nurse brought up her patient’s morning tea. Heath had notified Markham, and Markham had stopped on his way to the Greene mansion to apprise Vance of the new development. Vance and I had already breakfasted, and we accompanied him to the house. “This knocks out our only prop,” Markham said despondentl…