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With Desmond Okewood discretion was second nature, and therefore he answered with feigned surprise: "Your evidence about what? About our meeting the Mackwaytes last night?" After he had spoken he realized he had blundered. Surely, after all, the Chief would have told Strangwise about their investigations at Seven Kings. Still... "No," replied Strangwise, "but about Nur-el-Din!"
But here he was doomed to disappointment. Barbara could tell him practically nothing save what he already knew, that they were to work together in this affair. Like him, she was waiting for her instructions. Barbara received him in a neat little suburban drawing-room in the house of her friends, who lived a few streets away from the Mackwaytes.
Chugg, sir," said Mr. Marigold, "the charwoman who found the body!" The Chief and Desmond stood at the detective's side in the Mackwaytes' little dining-room. The room was in considerable disorder.
"What time did you part from the Mackwaytes at the theatre last night?" Desmond was dumbfounded. How on earth did the Chief know about his visit to the Palaceum? Still, he was used to the omniscience of the British Intelligence, so he answered promptly: "It was latish, sir; about midnight, I think!" "They went home to Seven Kings alone!" "Yes, sir, in a taxi!" Desmond replied.
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