"I wonder
if you account for Monsieur Boissegur's disappearance as I do?" he
inquired.
"I dare say," and Miss Thorne leaned toward him with sudden eagerness in
her manner and voice. "Your theory is--?" she questioned.
"If we believe the servants we know that Monsieur Boissegur did not go
out either by the front door or rear," Mr. Grimm explained. "That being
true the French window by which you entered seems to have been the way."
"Yes, yes," Miss Thorne interpolated. "And the circumstances attending
the disappearance? How do you account for the fact that he went,
evidently of his own will?"
"Precisely as you must account for it if you have studied the situation
here as I have," responded Mr. Grimm. "For instance, sitting at his desk
there"--and he turned to indicate it--"he could readily see out the
windows overlooking the street. There is only a narrow strip of lawn
between the house and the sidewalk. Now, if some one on the sidewalk,
or--or--"
"In a carriage?" promptly suggested Miss Thorne.
"Or in a carriage," Mr. Grimm supplemented, "had attracted his
attention--some one he knew--it is not at all unlikely that he rose, for
no apparent reason, as he did do, passed along the hall--"
"And through the French window, across the lawn to the carriage, and not
a person in the house would have seen him go out? Precisely! There seems
no doubt that was the way," she mused.
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