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Glenthorpe's body had been discovered in the pit on the rise, and that Mr. Ronald, as she called Mr. Penreath, was suspected of having murdered him. "When she told me that I felt as though my blood turned to ice. I knew it was true I knew that he had killed Mr. Glenthorpe because he wanted money but I knew that in spite of all I wanted to shield and help him.
"This fact is highly significant, because the matches in Penreath's silver box are, as you see, blue-headed wax matches, whereas the matches struck in Mr. Glenthorpe's room on the night of the murder were of an entirely different description wooden matches with pink heads, of British manufacture so-called war matches, with cork pine sticks.
These thoughts kept going through my head as I sat with grandmother during the storm. "When I saw the door of Mr. Glenthorpe's room open, and the light burning, all these thoughts seemed to come back into my head together. I remembered how good and kind Mr. Glenthorpe had always been to me. I had heard my father tell Charles that morning that Mr.
"Not much of a drop for an athletic young fellow like Ronald," said Galloway to Colwyn, who had joined him. "The window is very much smaller than the one in Mr. Glenthorpe's bedroom," said Colwyn. "But large enough for a man to get through. Look here! I can get my head and shoulders through, and where the head and shoulders go the rest of the body will follow.
I found it this morning down the pit where the body was thrown." "How did you get down the pit?" asked Queensmead. "I climbed down the creepers as far as they went. I had a rope for the rest of the descent, but it wasn't needed, for I found Mr. Glenthorpe's pocket-book suspended by a cord about ten feet down. Here it is."
Benson returned I told him, and he went in to him. I didn't see the young gentleman again until I waited on him and Mr. Glenthorpe at dinner in the upstairs sitting-room." "Very good. Tell us what happened there." "I laid the table, and took up the dinner at half-past seven. Those were Mr. Glenthorpe's orders. When I went up the first time the table was covered with flints and fossils, which Mr.
The chief constable waited for the storm to subside before he was able to extract the information that Ann hadn't seen the young gentleman leave the house. He had gone when she took up Mr. Glenthorpe's breakfast nearly an hour later, and made the discovery that the key of Mr. Glenthorpe's room was in the outside of the door, and his room empty.
When he reached a door near the end, he opened it and stood aside for them to enter. "This is the room," he said, in a low voice. It was Colwyn's keen eye that noted the key in the door. "What is that key doing in the door, on the outside?" he asked. "How long has it been there?" "The maid found it there this morning, sir, when she went up with Mr. Glenthorpe's hot water.
"Here's another point: why did not Ronald, having disposed of the body, disappear at once, instead of waiting for the morning?" "Because if his room had been found empty in the morning, as well as that of Mr. Glenthorpe's, the double disappearance would have aroused instant suspicion and search. Ronald gauged the moment of his departure very cleverly, in my opinion.
I met a man on the marshes who directed me to the village and the inn." "When she heard your voice, and saw you going upstairs, she waited about in the hope of seeing you before she went to bed, as she wished to avoid meeting you in the presence of her father. When she saw Mr. Glenthorpe's door open she acted on a sudden impulse, and went in."
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