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Blake had not returned from Fenley, and the five other members of the supper club were inclined to regard Diggory's vision of the midnight intruder as a sort of waking nightmare, resulting from an overdose of cake and pork-pie. Two days later Cross came into the schoolroom in a great state of excitement.
"What's up now, and what's the racket in the park?" Fenley explained, but hurried to the vital matter. "My car is out of action," he said. "I was going to the Easton garage to hire one when I saw yours standing here. Lend it to me for a couple of hours; there's a good fellow. I'll pay well for the use of it." "Pay? Nonsense! Jump in! Take Mr. Fenley where he wants to go, Tom.
You ought to know every spot in the covert where it's possible to aim a gun at any one stannin' on top of the steps at The Towers. There can't be many such places. Is there even one? I don't suppose the barefaced scoundrel would dare come out into the open drive. Brodie said Mr. Fenley was shot through the right side while facin' the car, so he bears out both your notion an' Mr.
Or, I had better put it, had their father expressed any views as to either of his sons marrying suitably?" "We, in the house, sir, had a notion that Mr. Fenley would like Mr. Robert to marry Miss Sylvia." "Exactly. I expected that. Were these two young people of the same way of thinking?" "They were friendly, sir, but more like brother and sister. You see, they were reared together.
"The fact is, gentlemen, that if an oak an' a couple o' spruce first hadn't been cut down you wouldn't see the house even from where you are," he said. "Mr. Fenley had an idee of buildin' a shelter on this rock, but he let it alone 'coss o' the birds. Ladies would be comin' here, an' a-disturbin' of 'em." The detectives came down.
Taken by surprise, since he did not know what had struck him, Furneaux pressed the governor of the torch a second too soon, and his eyes, raised instantaneously, met those of Hilton Fenley, who was on the point of letting go the branch and swinging himself down.
"My brother is self-willed and impetuous, and he was dreadfully shocked at finding his father dead." "Did he tell you he meant returning to London at once?" "No. When I came downstairs, after the distressing scene with Mrs. Fenley, he had gone." The Superintendent was aware already that he was dealing with a man cast in no ordinary mold, but he did not expect this continued meekness.
Fenley might have yielded readily to your persuasion, but your help took the form of threatening people who adopted the only other course possible. Calm yourself, sir, and try to remember that the father from whom you parted in anger has been murdered. My colleague and I represent Scotland Yard; we were brought here by your brother. See that you meet us in the dining-room in a quarter of an hour.
MacBain came, and was asked if he was aware that Miss Sylvia had quitted the house. MacBain gave his version of the story, and Fenley remarked that he might leave the window unfastened until he made his rounds at one o'clock. Seemingly as an afterthought, Hilton mentioned his brother's open door, and MacBain discovered that Mr. Robert was missing also.
Fenley, in whom some vague stirring of the spirit had induced a consciousness that all was not well in the household with which she "never interfered." It was she who had uttered that ringing shriek when some flustered maid blurted out that "the master" was dead, and her dazed brain had realized what the sheet covered.
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