“Why not? There are millions in that formula, Lomax. Doubtless Bauer hoped to get access to my private papers at Chimneys, and to learn something of forthcoming arrangements from them. It seems likely that he may have had an accomplice in this house—someone who put him wise to the lie of the land and who saw to the doping of O’Rourke. But Bauer was the man Miss Wade saw climbing down the ivy—the big, powerful man.”
He turned to Superintendent Battle.
“Bauer was your man, Superintendent. And, somehow or other, you let him slip through your fingers.”