The constable immediately unlocked the drawer and brought it and
its contents to the table.

"No money here," said he.

"But papers as good as money," announced the doctor. "See! here
are deeds and more than one valuable bond. I judge she was a
richer woman than any of us knew."

Mr. Sutherland, meantime, was looking with an air of
disappointment into the now empty drawer.

"Just as I feared," said he. "She has been robbed of her ready
money. It was doubtless in the other drawer."

"How came she by the key, then?"

"That is one of the mysteries of the affair; this murder is by no
means a simple one. I begin to think we shall find it full of
mysteries."

"Batsy's death, for instance?"

"O yes, Batsy! I forgot that she was found dead too."

"Without a wound, doctor."

"She had heart disease. I doctored her for it. The fright has
killed her."