Why should I have done that?”
“To see no one changed guns on you and perhaps substituted the fatal gun for Adelle’s gun.”
“No, I didn’t take the number, but I wrapped it in tissue paper, then in heavy brown paper, sealed the paper with tape, wrote my name across the seal and labeled the package.”
Mason said, “You may have undone the very thing you were trying to do.”
“What do you mean?”
Mason said, “Hastings was murdered.