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Updated: June 23, 2025
To the eye of faith alone we must trust the explanation of what has happened. There are things concealed from the wise and prudent to be revealed unto babes." That night the master of Chadlands, his nephew, and the priest dined together, and Henry Lennox implored a privilege. "I feel I owe it to poor Tom in a way," he said.
If Hardcastle should find out anything, there may be a call upon me. At least, I cannot turn my back upon Chadlands till the mystery is threshed out to the bottom, as far as man can do it." It was then that Septimus May spoke and astounded his hearers.
Three came and passed a day and a night in the Grey Room. They were rewarded with no phenomena whatever. The master of Chadlands was at length informed that he might leave England, but directed to set a seal on the Grey Room, and to treat it in such a manner that it should no longer be capable of entrance.
Sir Walter spoke. "Thank Heaven, signor, thank Heaven! All is well with you?" "All is absolutely well with me, but then I have slept refreshingly for some time. You, I fear, have not closed your eyes." "Would you have any objection to Masters hearing what you may have to tell us? By so doing a true and ungarbled report will get out to Chadlands."
The guns were returning, and eight men with three women arrived at the lofty gates. One of the party rode a grey pony, and a woman walked on each side of him. They chattered together, and the little company of tweed-clad people passed into Chadlands Park and trudged forward, where the manor house rose half a mile ahead.
Hardcastle begged for a private interview with the master of Chadlands, and for two hours sat in his study and took him through the case from the beginning. He put various questions concerning the members of the recent house party, and presently begged that Henry Lennox might join them. "I should like to hear the account of what passed on the night between him and Captain May," he said.
I then recollected Colonel Vane's name, among others mentioned in the 'Times, as at Chadlands when the disaster occurred. "Finding that my curiosity was not idle, Colonel Vane accepted an invitation to dinner, and I enjoyed the pleasure of entertaining him and learning many personal and intimate particulars of the event.
"You really feel more hopeful?" "Yes, I do, ma'am; and if he can fire the creature and signal 'All's clear' for Chadlands, it will calm everybody and be a proper feather in his cap, and he did ought to be made a bishop, at the least. Not that Scotland Yard men will believe a word of it to-morrow, all the same.
"You will observe," he said, with satire, "that, despite the heat we are directed to apply to this unfortunate man, rigor mortis has set in. Whether the authority in London regards that as an evidence of death, of course I cannot pretend to say. Perhaps not. I may be behind the times." Neither Mannering nor Lennox had spared much thought for those left behind them at Chadlands.
Besides, this is fairly my task you won't deny that. Chadlands will be mine, some day, so it's up to me to knock this musty yarn on the head once and for all. Could anything be more absurd than shutting up a fine room like that? I'm really rather ashamed of Uncle Walter." "Of course it's absurd but, honestly, I'm rather keen about this.
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