When Von Blon had gone Markham gazed at Vance anxiously.
"What do you make of it?" he asked.
"I don't like it—I don't at all like it." Vance shook his head despairingly. "It's dashed queer—the whole thing. And the doctor is worried, too. There's a panic raging beneath his elegant façade. He's in a blue funk—and it's not because of the loss of his pills. He fears something, Markham. There was a strained, hunted look in his eyes."
"Doesn't it strike you as strange that he should be carrying such quantities of drugs about with him?"
"Not necessarily. Some doctors do it. The Continental M.D.s especially are addicted to the practice. And don't forget Von Blon is German-trained. . . ." Vance glanced up suddenly. "By the by, what about those two wills?"
There was a look of astonished interrogation in Markham's incisive stare, but he said merely:
"I'll have them later this afternoon. Buckway has been laid up with a cold, but he promised to send me copies to-day."
Vance got to his feet.
"I'm no Chaldean," he drawled; "but I have an idea those two wills may help us to understand the disappearance of the doctor's pellets." He drew on his coat and took up his hat and stick. "And now I'm going to banish this beastly affair from my thoughts.—Come, Van. There's some good chamber-music at Æolian Hall this afternoon, and if we hurry we'll be in time for the Mozart 'C-major.'"
