"
"Let me ask you one question," said the Inspector, "Have either of you
ever been in those rooms since you let them to these people!"
"No!" answered the elder man. "Neither of us--at anytime!"
"Then," commanded the Inspector, "I'll thank you to come up with us to
them--now!"
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
CHANG LI
Not without some grumbling as to waste of time and interference with
business, the Pilmansey brothers led the way to a side door which opened
into a passage that ran along the side of the shop and from whence a
staircase rose to the upper regions of the house. The elder pointed,
significantly, to the street door at the end.
"You'll take notice that these young fellows I told you of get to the
rooms we let them through that?" he observed. "That door's always locked--
they all have latch-keys to it. They never come through the shop--we've
nothing to do with them, and we don't know anything about whatever they
may do in their rooms--all we're concerned with is that they pay their
rent and behave themselves. And quiet enough they've always been--we've
had no reason to complain."
"And, as they all have latch-keys, I suppose they can get into the place
at any hour of the day--or night?" suggested the Inspector.
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