But the fact that
it was market-day at Stanton, and that the little town would be
more full than usual of visitors, made it less likely that either
the departure of Mark by the 4.20, or the arrival of Robert by
the 2.10 earlier in the afternoon, would have been particularly
noticed. As Antony had said to Cayley, there would always be
somebody ready to hand the police a circumstantial story of the
movements of any man in whom the police were interested.
That Robert had come by the 2.10 seemed fairly certain. To find
out more about him in time for the inquest would be difficult.
All that was known about him in the village where he and Mark had
lived as boys bore out the evidence of Cayley. He was an
unsatisfactory son, and he had been hurried off to Australia; nor
had he been seen since in the village. Whether there were any
more substantial grounds of quarrel between the two brothers
than that the younger one was at home and well-to-do, while the
elder was poor and an exile, was not known, nor, as far as the
inspector could see, was it likely to be known until Mark was
captured.
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