Would he have done it like that?
Just killed him and then run away? Why, that's practically
suicide--suicide whilst of unsound mind. No. If you really
wanted to remove an undesirable brother, you would do it a little
bit more cleverly than that. You'd begin by treating him as a
friend, so as to avoid suspicion, and when you did kill him at
last, you would try to make it look like an accident, or suicide,
or the work of some other man. Wouldn't you?"
"You mean you'd give yourself a bit of a run for your money?"
"Yes, that's what I mean. If you were going to do it
deliberately, that is to say and lock yourself in before you
began."
Cayley had been silent, apparently thinking over this new idea.
With his eyes still on the ground, he said now: "I hold to my
opinion that it was purely accidental, and that Mark lost his
head and ran away."
"But what about the key?" asked Bill.
"We don't know yet that the keys were outside. I don't at all
agree with Mr. Gillingham that the keys of the down-stairs rooms
are always outside the doors.
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