The Second Confesion

“He had a key,” Wolfe asserted, which was quite true. The card wasn't there; if it had been, Mr Goodwin would have found it. But he did find evidence, no matter how or what, that Mr Rony had had in his possession one or more objects, probably a paper or papers, which he had used as a tool of coercion on one or more persons here present. It doesn't matter what his demands were, but in passing let me say that I doubt that they were for money; I think what he required, and was getting, was support for his courtship of the younger Miss Sperling-or at least neutrality. Another-” “What was the evidence?” Archer demanded.