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"Was anybody with him?" "No, sir. I'd have seen that much; but he carried a big sack behind the saddle that I can swear to." There had been several telephone calls for Inspector Halfyard during his absence; and now three separate statements from different districts awaited him. These were already written out by a constable, and he took them one by one, read them, and handed them to Brendon.
But he said no more and prepared to go on his way. It was now three o'clock. Suddenly he turned and asked Halfyard a question. "What do you think of Mrs. Pendean, inspector?" "I think two things about her," answered the elder.
That is all I can tell you." Mrs. Pendean stopped and Brendon rose. "What remains to be told I will get from Inspector Halfyard himself," he said. "And you must let me congratulate you on your statement. It would have been impossible to put the past situation more clearly before me.
I'm unwilling to do so; but it looks like duty." So spoke Brendon. "Right. If it looks like duty, do it. Let me hear again to-night. Halfyard, chief at Princetown, is an old friend of mine. Very good man. Good-bye." Mark then learned that Inspector Halfyard was already at Foggintor. "I'm on this," said Mark to the constable. "I'll come in again.
And the overmastering fact was that Jenny Pendean had lost her husband. If she were, indeed, a widow He shook his head impatiently and turned to Halfyard. "Should Robert Redmayne not be taken to-day, one or two things must be done," he said. "You'd better have some of that blood collected and the fact proved that it is human.
I am speaking of last night now. I did not bother till midnight, but then I grew frightened. I went to the police station, saw Inspector Halfyard, and told him that my husband and uncle had not come back from Foggintor and that I was anxious about them. He knew them both by sight and my husband personally, for he had been of great use to Michael when the moss depôt was at work.
Pendean and the assurances of Inspector Halfyard at Princetown indicate an amiable and quiet person, slow to anger. Inspector Halfyard knew him quite well at the Moss Depôt, where he worked through two years of the war. He was apparently not a man to have infuriated Captain Redmayne or anybody else."
The first came from the post office at Post Bridge, and the post-mistress reported that a man, one Samuel White, had seen a motor bicycle run at great speed without lights up the steep hill northward of that village on the previous night. He gave the time as between half past ten and eleven o'clock. "We should have heard of him from Moreton next," said Halfyard; "but, no.
But he attached not the least importance to either fragment. Nothing that he regarded as of value resulted from inspection of the remaining rooms and Brendon presently decided that he would return to Princetown. He showed Halfyard the footprints by the water and had them protected with a tarpaulin. "Something tells me that this is a pretty simple business all the same," he said.
At the edge of the central stain were smears and, among them, half the impress of a big, nail-studded boot. "Have the workmen been in here this morning?" asked Brendon, and Inspector Halfyard answered that they had not. "Two constables were here last night after one o'clock the men I sent from Princetown when Mrs. Pendean gave the alarm," he said.
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