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From his seat on the rocks he followed Charles's ascent up the narrow path with contemplative eyes. Barrant returned to London in the mental disposition of a man who sees an elaborate theory thrown into the melting-pot by an unexpected turn of events. The humbling thought was that he had allowed a second fish to glide through his hands without even suspecting that it was on his line.
"I want to see your son," he said, entering and glancing quickly round the apartment. "I am afraid that is impossible." "Why?" "He is not here." "Where is he?" "I think he has gone to London." Barrant was plainly taken aback at this unexpected piece of news. "When did he go?" he demanded. "Yesterday evening." Barrant cast a look at Dawfield, which said plainly: "He's had word of this and bolted."
But all Robert's acts hinged on his one great obsession. But it would come home to him afterwards I mean the normal point of view the way the world would regard such a disclosure and I have no doubt that his belated mental anguish and morbid thoughts impelled him to take his life. Understand me, Mr. Barrant, I do not mean that he did this through remorse, but through the blow to his pride.
Barrant nodded approval. "Let us go," he said. The car was waiting outside. The way lay through the town and then across the moors in undulating ascent until at the highest point a rough track crossed the road at a spot where four parishes met.
"Thalassa told Pengowan that Robert Turold kept the revolver in the drawer of his writing table," Dawfield remarked. "I have read Pengowan's report," returned Barrant impatiently, "and I am assuming that Robert Turold's daughter knew where it was kept. This is a purely constructive theory of her guilt, and we have to assume many things.
If so, Sisily must have left Flint House shortly before her aunt's arrival to catch the returning wagonette at the cross-roads where the young woman was seen waiting by Peter Portgartha. But that plausibly conceived itinerary of events needed the support of proof, and there Barrant found himself in difficulty.
Portgartha, they're ever so much more grand than Cornwall. Well, while the war was on I did see the Canaries and Bay of Naples at Government's expense on a minesweeper, and they're not a patch on the Cornwall coast. There's nathin' to beat it in the world." "It's good, is it?" said Barrant, with his accustomed affability to strangers. "If I want to see any of it I'll get you to show me round."
Ravenshaw's study ticked loudly in the perfect stillness and then struck ten with a note of metallic derision as though rejoicing in the theft of an hour from a man who prided himself on knowing the value of time. Startled to find that it was so late, Barrant sprang to his feet and rang the bell. A sleepy Cornish maid appeared in answer, and Barrant informed her that he could not wait any longer.
The sounds died away into a silence so absolute as to suggest the impression of a universe suddenly stricken dumb. Barrant crossed the room to the window, where he stood looking out, deep in thought. What was the meaning of it all of this latest scene in particular? The game of patience so tempestuously concluded had occupied half-an-hour. He had noted the time. Yet Mrs.
He may have suffered from agoraphobia." "What is that?" asked Barrant. "The dread of open spaces." "I have heard of claustrophobia the dread of closed spaces but not of this." "It is common enough an absurd but insurmountable aversion to open spaces. The victims are oppressed by a terrible anxiety when crossing a field.
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