"Have you investigated the maid who cleaned the room?" Holmes took out his pipe and filled it with tobacco.
"I have. Even though the maid has been working in the house for two years, the old housekeeper immediately detained and searched her. Still, there was no oil painting. Moreover, she had not been anywhere else since she entered the house and went to see the housekeeper. So, we can rule her out as the suspect," said Villard.