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 CHAPTER X

A Second Murder?

"Mr. McManus," said Trafford, after they had completed the re-examination of Wing's private papers at the office and in his safe at home, "was Mr. Wing of a peculiarly secretive disposition?"

"If he had a fault," McManus answered, "and since he was human, he must have had, it was his excessive frankness and openness."

"And yet we find him lugging papers on some affair, which he shared with no one, back and forth from office to house, and when not so doing, keeping them locked in a safe in his library to which only he had access. How do you account for this?"

McManus glanced over his shoulder before answering and then dropped his voice almost to a whisper, although they were sitting in the very centre of the great library at the Parlin house, with the door closed.