Storey. \"Whittall is far too clever a man to have offered me so preposterous a story if it were not true. There is nothing so preposterous as the truth sometimes.\"
\"Well, if he didn't do it himself he certainly had it done,\" I said excitedly. \"And that telephone message was from his hireling telling him that the job was accomplished.\"
But Mme. Storey still shook her head.
\"What makes you so sure Whittall wasn't responsible?\" I asked helplessly.
Storey. \"Whittall is far too clever a man to have offered me so preposterous a story if it were not true. There is nothing so preposterous as the truth sometimes.\"
\"Well, if he didn't do it himself he certainly had it done,\" I said excitedly. \"And that telephone message was from his hireling telling him that the job was accomplished.\"
But Mme. Storey still shook her head.
\"What makes you so sure Whittall wasn't responsible?\" I asked helplessly.
