"We must."
"Then we'll explore the passage this afternoon, if we get the
chance. And if we don't get the chance, then we'll try it
to-night."
They walked across the hall and out into the sunlight again.
"Do you really think we might find Mark hiding there?" asked
Bill.
"It's possible," said Antony. "Either Mark or--" He pulled
himself up quickly. "No," he murmured to himself, "I won't let
myself think that not yet, anyway. It's too horrible."
CHAPTER XII
A Shadow on the Wall
In the twenty hours or so at his disposal Inspector Birch had
been busy. He had telegraphed to London a complete description
of Mark in the brown flannel suit which he had last been seen
wearing; he had made inquiries at Stanton as to whether anybody
answering to this description had been seen leaving by the 4.20;
and though the evidence which had been volunteered to him had
been inconclusive, it made it possible that Mark had indeed
caught that train, and had arrived in London before the police at
the other end had been ready to receive him.
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