Not from his
wife, however. I needn't tell you that. You'll be free to poke about
and try and surprise 'Red Waistcoat.' Perhaps you'll do the trick;
but take care he doesn't surprise you. All I ask is that you don't
believe a quarter you hear, or half you see. We must get under the
appearances if we're to make good."
"You think, then, that Doria and Robert Redmayne may be running in
double harness? And perhaps you think that Jenny Doria knows this
fact and that in this secret knowledge her present misery lies?"
"No need to drag her in; but your own question suggests the
possibility."
"Not against my own knowledge. She could be a willing party to no
crime. It is contrary to her inherent character, Ganns."
"And yet you're a detective 'first and last and always'--eh? One
would think that I wanted you to put her through the third degree.
Not that I ever put any man or woman through it myself. It is dirty
business and quite unworthy of our great service. We'll leave Mrs.
Doria, then, and concentrate on her husband.
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