Bill would have said "No," because Bill
wouldn't have killed anybody in cold blood himself, and because
he took it for granted that other people behaved pretty much as
he did. But Antony had no such illusions. Murders were done;
murder had actually been done here, for there was Robert's dead
body. Why not another murder?
Had Mark been in the office at all that afternoon? The only
evidence (other than Cayley's, which obviously did not count) was
Elsie's. Elsie was quite certain that she had heard his voice.
But then Bill had said that it was a very characteristic voice
--an easy voice, therefore, to imitate. If Bill could imitate it
so successfully, why not Cayley?
But perhaps it had not been such a cold-blooded killing, after
all. Suppose Cayley had had a quarrel with his cousin that
afternoon over the girl whom they were both wooing. Suppose
Cayley had killed Mark, either purposely, in sudden passion, or
accidentally, meaning only to knock him down. Suppose that this
had happened in the passage, say about two o'clock, either
because Cayley had deliberately led him there, or because Mark
had casually suggested a visit to it.
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