It is possible that
Sprague, also sneaking into the house that Saturday night to get his
bag, saw Miles retrieve the gun. At any rate, Sprague knew that Miles
was the only person among all the company who had a real motive for
killing Nita Selim, and he undoubtedly blackmailed Miles as a murderer
as well as a bigamist. Perhaps Miles put him off for a day or two, but
on Wednesday Judge Marshall begged for a bridge game, and Miles seized
the opportunity of again having the original crowd present--a sort of
wall of integrity surrounding and including him. For I don't think he
really wanted to involve his best friends as suspects. I believe he
merely wanted to hide among them--apparently as above suspicion as they
were. And there is safety in numbers, you know.... At any rate, Miles
made an appointment Wednesday afternoon with Sprague, telling him that,
if he would come to his home that evening, and manage to leave the
bridge game while he was dummy, he would find the money he was
demanding--_in a drawer of the cabinet that stood between the two
windows in the trophy room_!"
Dundee exhibited the drawer he had taken from the basement tool room.
"This drawer! I took it away from the Miles home this afternoon while
everyone but a chambermaid was at the inquest.
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