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The windows in them were new, the doors fresh painted and closely shut; curtains of some soft outlandish make showed themselves in what had once been a stable, and the turf stretched smoothly up to a narrow gravelled path in front of them, unbroken by a single footmark.
Hewitt asked, pointing at the last footmark and then at the door, which was quite that distance away from it. "Besides," he added, opening the door, "there's no footprint here nor outside." The door opened on a lane, with another fence and a thick plantation of trees at the other side. Kentish looked at the footmarks, then at the door, then down the lane, and finally back toward the house.
'Have the footmarks in the road been measured? 'No, they haven't, Mr Jobson! 'Then they should have, Mr Inspector; you can tell a lot from a footmark, as I've heard. It's what the French call the Bertillon system of identification, that's what it is.
There were perhaps six hundred feet into the woods, by this time, and stood looking down at the fifth footmark they had found. "All right," nodded Darrin. "We're a pair of rank amateurs at this kind of work, anyway." "Amateurs or not," murmured Dick, with a smile? "we seem to be the only folks in Gridley who are on the right track in this mystery at present."
Placing the blank side of the sheet face-downwards upon the imprint he pressed down smartly. The result was a very fair impression of the footmark, which he immediately outlined in pencil. A strange ominous silence fell upon the group. Deep in wild, whirling conjecture, each man gazed about him. The desolate, sinister aspect of their surroundings struck them with a sudden chill.
Gorry! he must be a big old fellow, by his tracks! See here, in this smooth dirt; just like a baby's footmark." "Trouble is, we lack a good dog," said John York anxiously, after he had made an eager inspection. "I don't know where in the world to get one, either. There ain't no such a dog about as your Rover, but you 've let him get spoilt; these days I don't see him leave the yard.
Blood issued from his foot, which slid along the stone pavement, leaving a long footmark, printed in blood. And there it has remained ever since, in spite of the scrubbings of all succeeding generations. Mrs. spoke of it with much solemnity, real or affected. She says that they now cover the bloody impress with a carpet, being unable to remove it.
Stair had been up that morning long before the tardy January dawn, Whitefoot had been sent from the farm the night before with the news that Jean would meet him in the bed of the Mays Water opposite Peden's Stone. There was now more freedom of moving about, for the freezing of the snow enabled both man and beast to pass over it without leaving a footmark.
Mrs. asked me to go and see the Hall and the footmark; and as it is in Lancashire, and not a great way off, and a curious old place, perhaps I may. April 12th. The Earl of , whom I saw the other day at St. George's Hall, has a somewhat elderly look, a pale and rather thin face, which strikes one as remarkably short, or compressed from top to bottom.
Mrs. asked me to go and see the Hall and the footmark; and as it is in Lancashire, and not a great way off, and a curious old place, perhaps I may. April 12th. The Earl of , whom I saw the other day at St. George's Hall, has a somewhat elderly look, a pale and rather thin face, which strikes one as remarkably short, or compressed from top to bottom.
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