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That part of the plan was as essential to the murderer as the false report, but it seemed strange that the pistol had not been discovered when the room was searched. An examination of the grate upstairs might reveal the reason. Before leaving the gun-room Colwyn replaced one of the pistols and restored the case as he had found it to its original position.
The article was a small match-box, with a regimental badge in enamel on one side, and on the other some initials in monogram. Colwyn examined it closely. "I see the initials are J.R.P.," he said. "How did you know they were his initials? You knew his name?" "Yes. He used to light cigarettes with matches from that match-box when I was with him, and one day I asked him to show it to me.
The interview had been of the solicitor's seeking, and it was for him to disclose his object in doing so. "This is a very unfortunate case, Mr. Colwyn," the solicitor remarked. "Yes; it seems so," replied Colwyn. "I am afraid there is not the slightest doubt that this unhappy young man has committed this murder." "You have arrived at that conclusion?"
"My Janet's as good as the best of them any day. The Adairs are not such grand people as Miss Polehampton makes out I never heard of such insulting distinctions!" "Fancy Janetta being sent away regularly expelled!" muttered Joey, with another chuckle. "You are very unkind to talk in that way!" said Janetta, addressing him, because at that moment she could not bear to look at Mr. Colwyn.
"Superintendent Galloway told me to put a table and some chairs into the last empty room off the passage leading into the kitchen. It's the biggest room in the house, and there are plenty of chairs in the lumber room upstairs." "It should do excellently for the purpose, I should think," said Colwyn.
When he had finished a glass of wine Colwyn offered him, he got up from the table with the remark that it was time for him to return to the bar. "I will go with you," said Colwyn. "It will help to pass away an hour."
It was while he was thus engaged that a faint rustle aroused his attention, and looking towards the corner of the room whence it proceeded, he saw a large rat crouching by the skirting-board watching him with malevolent eyes. Colwyn looked round for a weapon with which to hit it.
He glanced from one to the other of their attentive faces, and said abruptly: "Hazel Rath is innocent." "I was certain of it." Philip Heredith's hand came down emphatically on the table in front of him as he made this declaration. "I knew it all along," he added in additional emphasis. "This is an amazing piece of news, Mr. Colwyn," said Musard, turning earnestly to the detective. "Who, then "
Ann concluded by solemnly urging Colwyn, as long as he remained at the inn, to keep indoors at night as he valued his life, for ever since the murder the White Lady had been particularly active, shrieking nearly every night, as though seeking another victim, and the whole village was frightened to stir out in consequence.
From his window Colwyn could see the City shopgirls feeding the pigeons of St. Paul's around the statue of Queen Anne. To Colwyn, London was the place of adventures. He had lived in New York and Paris, but neither of these cities had for him the same fascination as the sprawling giant of the Thames. Paris was as stimulating and provocative as a paid mistress, but palled as quickly.
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