\"What!\" I cried, astonished. \"You still doubt that!\"
\"No,\" said Mme. Storey, smiling at the heat I betrayed. \"I'm sure he didn't.\"
\"But obviously that man Kreuger was ready to swear to anything that would please him!\"
\"Obviously!\" she agreed.
\"And the story about the telephone call—fancy anybody calling him up and saying: 'Your wife has been shot.' Just like that. Why, it's preposterous!\"
\"Quite!\" said Mme.
\"What!\" I cried, astonished. \"You still doubt that!\"
\"No,\" said Mme. Storey, smiling at the heat I betrayed. \"I'm sure he didn't.\"
\"But obviously that man Kreuger was ready to swear to anything that would please him!\"
\"Obviously!\" she agreed.
\"And the story about the telephone call—fancy anybody calling him up and saying: 'Your wife has been shot.' Just like that. Why, it's preposterous!\"
\"Quite!\" said Mme.
