Yet what could he do? What, indeed,
did he want to do except listen, in the hope of learning? Mark
engaged, or about to be engaged! Had that any bearing on the
events of yesterday? What, for instance, would Mrs. Norbury have
thought of brother Robert, that family skeleton? Was this
another reason for wanting brother Robert out of the way?
"I never liked him, never!"
"Never liked?" said Antony, bewildered.
"That cousin of his Mr. Cayley."
"Oh!"
"I ask you, Mr. Gillingham, am I the sort of woman to trust my
little girl to a man who would go about shooting his only
brother?"
"I'm sure you wouldn't, Mrs. Norbury."
"If there has been any shooting done, it has been done by
somebody else."
Antony looked at her inquiringly.
"I never liked him," said Mrs. Norbury firmly. "Never."
However, thought Antony to himself, that didn't quite prove that
Cayley was a murderer.
"How did Miss Norbury get on with him?" he asked cautiously.
"There was nothing in that at all," said Miss Norbury's mother
emphatically. "Nothing.
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