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"Zere will be no faight," commented the Dutch police officer in lugubrious accents, "my vriends, ve are too laite ..." But the Chief insisted that Mary should stay behind and the doctor agreed to act as her escort. Then in single file the party proceeded up the drive, Robin in front, then the Dutchman, after him the Chief, and Mr. Manderton in the rear. They walked on the grass edging the avenue.
He busied himself for an instant at the neck, then rose with a twisted strip of coloured material in his hand. "His braces," he remarked, "very common. The stool what he has stood upon and knocked avay, she lies outsaide! My vriends, ve are too laite!" The doctor, fetched in haste by Manderton, examined the body. The man had been dead, he said, for several hours.
Before he could disentangle himself the door slammed to with a crash that shook the house. "That's done it!" muttered the Chief. The three men stood and listened. They heard the dripping of the rain, the soughing of the wind, but no sound of human kind came to their ears. "The place is empty," whispered the Chief. "They've cleared ..." "It is too laite; I have said it."
Till it became laite, and eftir sune-sett, that they were faine to dimitt us to the nixt calling for. On the 2nd of October, the Eight were called again before the Scottish Council, and questions put to them bearing still on the same subject, to which they gave the same answers.
Manderton remained at the switch in the hall whilst the other two men followed Robin through the door. The room was in darkness. It struck chill; for the fire had gone out. The beam of the torch flitting from wall to wall showed the room to be empty. "I don't believe there's a soul in the house," whispered the Chief to Robin. "Ve are too laite; I have said it!" muttered the Dutchman.
"Too laite!" he cried, shaking his head; "have I not tell you?" Suspended by a strip of coloured stuff, the body of Mr. Jeekes dangled from the cross-beam of the door.
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