And if Craig gave the
woman, whoever she was, a good opportunity to get away with it, it
would be a case of the same conflicting evidence; or worse, no
evidence.
Yet the more I thought of it, the more apparent to me was it that
Kennedy must have thought the whole thing out before. So far all
that had been evident was that he was merely preparing a "plant."
Still, I meant to caution him when he returned that one could not
believe his eyes, certainly not his ears, as to what might happen,
unless he was unusually skilful or lucky. It would not do to rely
on anything so fallible as the human eye or ear, and I meant to
impress it on him. What, after all. had been the net result of our
activities so far? We had found next to nothing. Indeed, it was
all a greater mystery than ever.
It was very late when Craig returned, but I gathered from the
still fresh look on his face that he had been successful in
whatever it was he had had in mind when he made the trip.
"I saw Dr. Guthrie," he reported laconically, as we prepared to
turn in.
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