Chapter 25

"Well," said the other, indignant at his denseness, "didn't he have a gun of yours?" "Good God! You don't think that Dornford killed him?" "Why shouldn't he?" asked the other truculently. "He owed Lyne money, and Lyne had threatened to put him into the court unless he paid on the very day of his murder. If you know Dornford's reputation as well as I do, you know that that's the one thing he'd want to avoid. He prides himself upon being a swell, though his father was a horse dealer and his mother--well, I won't talk…