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"Unfortunately, that interview caused Nepcote to bolt, and so far he has shown us a clean pair of heels." "You've had no news of him?" "Only a lot of false reports. I am convinced that he is still hiding in London, but the trouble is to get hold of him. These infernal darkened streets make it more difficult.
"You still persist in thinking that she obtained the revolver from the gun-room?" Phil continued. "Yes, I do." "Do you not intend to make any further inquiries? You had better see Nepcote about the revolver. I will give you his address." "Captain Nepcote left here to go to the front, and we have not heard from him since," Miss Heredith explained to the detective.
On the basis of these facts, he pointed out to Merrington that, if Nepcote was the man who left the train at Weydene at seven o'clock, he had time to walk across the fields and reach the moat-house by half-past seven, which was ten minutes before the murder was committed. Merrington admitted the possibility, but refused to accept the inference.
We were using it for a little target practice in the gun-room downstairs." "And what did you do with it afterwards?" "That I cannot tell you," responded Nepcote. "I have no recollection of seeing it since. I have never thought about it." "Nor missed it?" "No. It is no use to me it is not an Army revolver.
"Then there can be no doubt Hazel Rath got it from the gun-room," said Caldew, returning the weapon to his pocket. "Captain Nepcote must have left it behind him there, and that is where Hazel Rath found it." "No, no! That seems impossible," said Phil. "Well, I think it is quite possible," replied Caldew.
The flowers drooped in their bowl; the chorus girls smirked in their silver settings; the framed racehorses and their stolid trainers looked woodenly down from the pink walls. "Nepcote does not seem to have taken anything away with him," remarked Caldew, looking into the bedroom. "The wardrobe is full of his uniforms, but the bed has not been occupied."
Then, through the partly open door, I heard Mr. Philip call on God Almighty to make somebody suffer as he had suffered. He mentioned a name " "Whose name?" The butler looked fearfully towards the closed door, as though he suspected eavesdroppers, and then brought it out with an effort: "Captain Nepcote, sir." Colwyn had expected that name.
"It is possible, though I do not think we are in a position to infer that much without further knowledge. But now that we know that Nepcote is connected with the case I certainly think that a strong effort should be made to induce Hazel Rath to speak." "It is not to be done," replied Merrington, with an emphatic shake of the head. "The girl is not to be drawn."
If Nepcote was the murderer he must have entered almost immediately before, because he could not have reached the moat-house until nearly half-past seven, and the shot was fired at twenty minutes to eight. How had he known that Mrs. Heredith was there alone, in the darkness?
"Arrested persons sometimes remain silent under a grave charge because they are anxious to keep certain knowledge in their possession from the police. Nepcote's implication in the case lends colour to the theory that Hazel Rath may be keeping silent for some such purpose." "In order to shield Nepcote?"
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