Lockwood shook his head slowly, fixing his eyes on Kennedy's face,
but not looking at him. "No," he answered; "I have told Dr. Leslie
just what I found. If there had been anything else I'm sure I
would have noticed it while I was waiting for Miss Inez to come
in."

His answers seemed perfectly frank and straight-forward. Yet
somehow I could not get over the feeling that he, as well as Inez,
was not telling quite all he knew--perhaps not about the murder,
but about matters that might be related to it.

Norton evidently felt the same way. "You saw no weapon--a dagger?"
he interrupted suddenly.

The young man faced Norton squarely. To me it seemed as if he had
been expecting the question. "Not a thing," he said deliberately.
"I looked about carefully, too. Whatever weapon was used must have
been taken away by the murderer," he added.

Juanita entered again, and Inez excused herself to answer the
telephone, while we stood in the living room chatting for a few
minutes.

"What is this 'curse of Mansiche' which the Senorita has
mentioned?" asked Kennedy, seeing a chance to open a new line of
inquiry with Lockwood.

"Oh, I don't know," he returned, impatiently flicking the ashes of
a cigarette which he had lighted the moment Inez left the room, as