“And that,” said I, “is what happened to Lawrence Paltrow.”
“That is what I think happened to him — mere speculation which cannot be proven.”
“A case could not be made against Sir Patrick Spenser?”
“Certainly not. He is the only survivor.” A smile crept across Sir John’s face. “But a man as greedy and unprincipled as he is sure to try another scheme soon. We shall keep an eye on him. In the meantime, I’d like you, Jeremy, to write an addendum to that case of Herbert Mudge’s ‘suicide,’ setting things right and tying it to Bolt. Leave out my speculations. We will have enough then, that we may take it from the ‘Unresolved’ file and put it where it properly belongs.”