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"In the first place, you must make another effort to see the Weynes. Mrs. Weyne may be able to give us some valuable information about Mrs. Heredith's earlier life. And I think you should see the station-master of Weydene Junction.
In Hazel Rath's secret love for Phil Heredith the Crown was supplied with the motive for the murder of Phil Heredith's wife.
"And that has been in my possession since the night of the murder." "That disposes of that possibility, then. What about Mrs. Heredith's bunch of keys? Have they also been in your possession since she was killed?" "Yes; I kept them in an upstairs drawer, which was locked." "Can you tell me when you last saw the necklace?" Miss Heredith reflected for a moment. "Not for some time," she said.
"I quite understand. But it is such a strange story that I hardly know how to begin." "Tell me everything from the first. That will be the best way." "That night I went up to Mrs. Heredith's room just to see her," she commenced, almost in a whisper. "My mother had told me earlier in the evening that she was alone in her room suffering from a headache.
Caldew was silent for a space, cogitating over these points with a troubled look which contrasted with his previous confident expressions of opinion about the case. His inward perturbation was made manifest in the question: "Do you also share Mr. Heredith's view that Hazel Rath is innocent?" "I cannot say. The facts against her are very strong."
Caldew had been hoping to get an opportunity of telling Merrington privately about the missing trinket, but he realized that he was not doing his duty by delaying the explanation. "There was something which might have helped us as a clue," he said. "Last night, while I was examining Mrs. Heredith's bedroom, I saw a small trinket lying on the floor near the bedside."
Heredith's case was the result of a bullet passing through the left lung. It passed between the second and third ribs in entering the body, traversed the lung, causing a great flow of blood, which filled the air passages." "Then the cause of death was hæmorrhage?" "Yes. There was very severe internal hæmorrhage. The face and the left-hand side of the neck were covered with blood.
His object was to get at the truth; to weigh each particle of supposition or evidence without regard to the feelings or social position of the witness. The case so far puzzled him, and Miss Heredith's answers to his questions revealed little about the murder that he had not previously known.
Rath, as the housekeeper, would probably know all about the keys of the household." "Of the ordinary keys yes. But that knowledge was hardly likely to extend to Mrs. Heredith's private keys, unless Miss Heredith told her.
There were one or two murmurs of conventional regret when Miss Heredith explained the reason of Mrs. Heredith's vacant place, but the majority of the London guests particularly the female portion recognized the illness as a subterfuge and accepted it with indifference. If Mrs. Heredith was bored with her guests they, on their part, were tired of their visit. The house party had not been a success.
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