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Chapter VII.—The Passing Years-2
“Don't try to bluff, Charlie,” smiled Larose. “You know perfectly well you'd be quite at a dead end if it weren't for me.” He spoke very solemnly. “Yes. I've found a motive for the crime at last! A one-time girl of the village, whom Toller had wronged and promised to marry, found out three days before he was killed, that he was already a married man. She upbraided him violently and threatened him with her revenge. Indeed, we can prove that her threat was no empty one, for she went so far as to buy a bottle of vitriol to throw over him,” and then he went on to relate all he had found out about Myrtle Marriott. After an exclamation of stark surprise from Stone, neither of the two Inspectors interrupted while he was telling his story. Their eyes, however, never left his face. Stone was scowl
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