Philo Vance
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You were engaged to Mr. Avery, weren't you?
You must feel very badly about the accident.
Oh?
I know this isn't any of my business, but I thought that if there were any doubt about your son's death being an accident, perhaps I could be of assistance.
Yes, I have.
Do you feel that it was?
I've heard the names Frank Joyce and Johnny Stanley mentioned in that connection.
Really?
But cutting down a tree, could a girl... Do that?
I'm sorry, too.
But I take it that's a signal for me to go.
Very well.
Goodbye, Mrs. Avery.
And if I didn't know better, I might think that you didn't want whoever murdered your son to be caught.
You're very adept with that axe, Mr. Stanley.
It strikes me as being singularly appropriate that a lumberjack with a grievance such as you had against Bill Avery would find some sort of poetic justice in making sure he died the way he did.
pinned under a fallen tree.
Is that the way it strikes you?
What do you know?
Oh, I haven't any proof, Mr. Stanley.