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"I do," said Thorndyke. "I want to know who is interested in this man's death." "That," replied Marchmont, "is rather a queer story. Let us take a turn in that garden that we saw from the window. We shall be quite private there." He beckoned to Mr. Curtis, and, when the inspector had departed with the police-surgeon, we induced the porter to let us into the garden.
Egerton." The police-surgeon greeted Thorndyke with respectful cordiality, and we proceeded at once to the examination of the body. Drawing out the thermometer, my colleague noted the reading, and passed the instrument to Dr. Egerton. "Dead about ten hours," remarked the latter, after a glance at it. "This was a very determined and mysterious murder." "Very," said Thorndyke.
"The witness has stated that he had no private information," said the coroner; and he proceeded to take the rest of the inspector's evidence, watched closely by the critical juror. The account of the finding of the remains having been given in full, the police-surgeon was called and sworn; the jurymen straightened their backs with an air of expectancy, and I turned over a page of my note-book.
"The police station's just at the back there's a way down to it from outside this parlour. I'll run down now. You, sir " "I'll stop here," answered Brent. "But get a doctor, will you? I want to know " "Dr. Wellesley, the police-surgeon, is next door," replied Brent. "The police'll get him. But he's beyond all doctors, Mr. Brent! Instantaneous that! I know!"
"Let us have these new bones out on the table," said the police-surgeon. "Take that sheet off, and don't shoot them out as if they were coals. Hand them out carefully." The labourer fished out the wet and muddy bones one by one from the sack, and as he laid them on the table the surgeon arranged them in their proper relative positions.
And for this reason I understand that the police-surgeon is of opinion that my uncle committed suicide. With all respect to him I'm sorry he's gone before I could talk to him that theory cannot be held for an instant! My cousin, Miss Wynne, and I knew our uncle far too well to believe that theory for a single moment, and we shall combat it by every means in our power when the inquest is held.
And before noon they knew all that medical examination and careful searching could tell them about the dead man. Hollis, said the police-surgeon and another medical man who had been called in to assist him, bore no marks of violence other than those which were inevitable in the case of a man who had fallen seventy feet. His neck was broken; he must have died instantaneously.
They followed the girl into the parlour and stood by while she bent over the dead man. She made no demonstration of grief, and when Ayscough presently suggested that she should go upstairs until the doctor had come, she went quietly away. "Hadn't we better lift him on that sofa?" suggested Lauriston. "Not till our people and the police-surgeon have seen him," answered Ayscough, shaking his head.
Phillopolis must suffer. They must all be punished." Stafford had sent the police from the room, but the police-surgeon would not be denied. He had the sense to see that nothing could be done for the dying man, however, and that a change of position would probably hasten the end. He, too, went and left them alone. "Stafford, I have quite a lot of money," said the First Commissioner; "it is yours.
From what I see of him, not the sort to be about our place." "That's what we shall hear presently," said Spargo. "They're going to search him." But Spargo was presently made aware that the searchers had found nothing. The police-surgeon said that the dead man had, without doubt, been struck down from behind by a terrible blow which had fractured the skull and caused death almost instantaneously.
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