Then I went back again,
hesitated a bit, you know, and finally decided to go across to
the office, and make sure that it was all right. I turned the
handle of the door and found it was locked. Then I got
frightened, and I banged at the door, and shouted, and--well,
that was when Mr. Gillingham arrived." He went on to explain how
they had found the body.
The inspector looked at him with a smile.
"Yes, well, we shall have to go over some of that again, Mr.
Cayley. Mr. Mark, now. You thought he was in the Temple. Could
he have come in, and gone up to his room, without your seeing
him?"
"There are back stairs. He wouldn't have used them in the
ordinary way, of course. But I wasn't in the hall all the
afternoon. He might easily have gone upstairs without my knowing
anything about it."
"So that you weren't surprised when you saw him coming down?"
"Oh, not a bit."
"Well, did he say anything?"
"He said, 'Robert's here?' or something of the sort. I suppose
he'd heard the bell, or the voices in the hall."
"Which way does his bedroom face? Could he have seen him coming
down the drive?"
"He might have, yes.
Pages:
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65