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"There is a heavy bruise on the forehead," said he. "He was felled first; then bayoneted." "Bayoneted!" Pendleton peered at the body. "There it is, sticking from his chest." Ashton-Kirk drew aside the breast of the dead man's coat and his companion caught sight of a bronze hilt. The broad, sword-like blade had been driven completely home.
If you'd like to see him," and the heavy jowls of the speaker trembled with eagerness, "Haines will show you there at once." "If it is no trouble," said Ashton-Kirk, smoothly. "Not in the least." The doctor rang for his man, and when he entered, said: "These gentlemen would like to speak to Professor Locke. Show them the way to his house.
Stillman seated himself at a desk and carefully perched his glasses upon his nose. "I perhaps take more trouble than is customary in these cases," he said to Ashton-Kirk. "It is usual to hear statements, I believe, only when they are proffered as testimony at the inquest. But it seems to me that the office should be carried on in a more thorough way.
He slipped his arm around her, for she was tottering; and as he helped her to a chair, Ashton-Kirk quietly entered at the hall door. "Miss Vale," said he, "good-evening." Without waiting to note if she even gave him a look, he bent over the fallen man and snapped a pair of handcuffs upon his wrists. "A very pretty blow, Pen," said he, admiringly.
Then he turned and touched another of the system of bells. Immediately a brisk, boyish looking young man presented himself. "Fuller," spoke Ashton-Kirk, "I want instant and complete information upon one Hume, a local numismatist, and Allan Morris, consulting engineer." "Very well, sir." And Fuller turned at once, and left the room.
As they left the building by the main door, Pendleton said: "A little while ago, I rashly promised to ask no more questions. If you'll release me from that, I'll unburden myself of one or two which will otherwise keep me awake to-night." "Go ahead," said Ashton-Kirk with a smile.
But he forgets that If the murderer did not visit Hume's with the intention of doing murder, it was rather a freakish thing for him to provide himself with a bayonet. However, that is a point that I discussed with Mr. Stillman yesterday; at first he was inclined to assume a somewhat similar position." "But the broken and cut portraits?" questioned Fuller. Ashton-Kirk smiled a little.
"The Star man seems to have struck up an acquaintance with Sams," said Ashton-Kirk, with interest. He thought for a moment, and then added to Fuller: "Tell Stumph when Miss Edyth Vale arrives to show her here at once." "Oh, you have been expecting her then?" "No: I have not. But I am now." After Fuller left the room, the investigator turned eagerly to the Star's leaded narrative.
Ashton-Kirk, that I altogether follow you." He smiled, but the disapproving wrinkle still showed between his eyes. "I see that you are still determined to hold to your attitude," he said. "I am sorry, of course, but then one is called upon at times to do as one thinks best, and I suppose that is what you are doing." He turned toward the door, and she arose and touched the bell. "Good-by."
"And partly with the confused idea that you might hide the deed from public gaze and in that way save Allan Morris from the consequences of his crime," said he. At this she sprang up, her hands outstretched appealingly; the fear now plain in her face. "No, no!" she cried. "He is not guilty! He did not do it!" "My dear young lady," said Ashton-Kirk, soothingly, "control yourself.
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