"I respect your intuition on the subject." "Leo, if Sibson, Saltmarsh, and Dr. Cox were all involved in a scheme to find the Rings and the statue, why kill Dr. Cox?" "A quarrel among thieves, perhaps." A m a n d a She nibbled on her lower lip while she considered that. "Mr. Saltmarsh was drugged at Trull's. Surely if he were one of the villains, he would not have drunk Dr. Cox's poison." "We do not know for certain that he actually drank the tainted tea, as he claimed. You said you smelled noxious fumes, but he could have deliberately spilled some of it nearby to enhance his story." "Yes, I suppose that is possible." She sat back and clasped her hands. "But it is also possible that Mr. Saltmarsh is entirely innocent. We must not leap to conclusions." "That particular leap is not so very great," Leo said dryly. "I see it more as a short step to an eminently reasonable assumption." "You have been biased against Mr. Saltmarsh since the beginning of this affair." "I am merely looking at the facts and drawing the obvious conclusions." -Well, if you ask me, there are no conclusions.
