Chapter 31

“I agree with you entirely, Mr. Tutt! It is indeed unfortunate that the mere fact that this paper”—he took it from his senior’s unresisting hand and tossed it on the desk in plain view of Willie—“was not in Mrs. Grover’s desk at the time of her death, but happened by merest chance to be in this office, may lose us our case! What a shame that it was not found among her effects—in her house! Why did we not have foresight enough to send it back to her? What a godsend it would be to poor Miss Lucy Aymar if it, or anoth…