CHAPTER IX

VANCE MAKES AN EXPERIMENT (_Friday, July 13; 2.15 p. m._) Vance went direct to the end cabinet before which Kyle’s body had been found, and dropped the two sofa pillows on the floor. Then he looked again speculatively at the upper edge of the cabinet. “I wonder. . . ,” he murmured. “Dash it all! I’m almost afraid to carry on. If I should be wrong, this entire case would come topplin’ about my head. . . .” “Come, come!” Markham was growing impatient. “Soliloquies have gone out of date, Vance. If …