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Updated: June 18, 2025
That supposition took no cognizance of the servants, but Caldew had all along eliminated the servants in his consideration of the crime. In the next place, it supplied an explanation for the disappearance of the bar brooch from the bedroom.
He nudged his companion, and pointed to a sign of "Good Beds," visible beneath a flare in a doorway opposite. "That's the place," he said. A policeman came up to them, looming out of the fog as suddenly as a spectre, and nodded to Caldew. "Nothing doing," he briefly announced. "I've watched the place ever since, but he hasn't been in." "All right," said Caldew. "You can leave it to me now.
I searched the house inside and out, and Sergeant Lumbe has been scouring the country-side since daybreak looking for suspicious characters." "I am not blaming you, Caldew," responded Merrington, but his voice suggested the reverse of his words. "I am merely pointing out to you the way the British public will look at it.
Merrington glanced carelessly at the little silver pencil-case, and after asking the pawnbroker a few questions he permitted him to depart. Then he touched his bell and sent for Detective Caldew.
As expert evidence at the inquest definitely determined that the bullet extracted from the murdered woman had been fired from the revolver, Merrington did not attach very much importance to the question of ownership, but before his departure for London he arranged that Caldew should return to the moat-house later with the revolver for Phil's inspection, in the hope of settling the point before the trial.
Caldew recalled that his fame rested chiefly on his wide experience rather than on the more subtle deductive methods of modern criminology.
I flatter myself I never forget a pair of eyes. Confound it, where the devil have I seen her?" Captain Stanhill turned away indifferently, and the conversation was terminated by the appearance of Detective Caldew, who appeared in the doorway as Mrs. Rath left the room. "Dr. Holmes is waiting in the drawing-room if you wish to see him," he announced. "Bring him here," commanded Merrington curtly.
"I have already spoken to Detective Caldew, but his attitude convinced me that it was hopeless to expect any assistance from Scotland Yard, so I decided to come to you." "In that case you had better tell me all that you know, if you wish me to help you," said the detective. "In the first place, I wish to hear all the facts of the murder itself.
Inquiries set afoot in London, with the object of discovering all that could be learnt of Nepcote's career and Violet Heredith's single life, occupied an important share in Scotland Yard's renewed investigations into the Heredith murder. Caldew was sent to Heredith to look for new facts.
Caldew walked towards him, wondering whether Miss Heredith had missed her chain of charms, and had gone upstairs to find it. In that case, he reflected grimly, the position of the previous night was reversed, and this time it was she who was forestalled. It was an ironical situation, truly, but he was to some extent the master of it. Musard nodded to the detective and proffered his cigarcase.
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