How could
Robert be made to seem the murderer, if Robert were alive to deny
it? But suppose Robert were dead, too?
He looks at his watch again. (Only twenty-five minutes now.)
Suppose Robert were dead, too? Robert dead in the office, and
Mark dead in the passage how does that help? Madness! But if
the bodies were brought together somehow and Robert's death
looked like suicide? .... Was it possible?
Madness again. Too difficult. (Only twenty minutes now.) Too
difficult to arrange in twenty minutes. Can't arrange a suicide.
Too difficult .... Only nineteen minutes ....
And then the sudden inspiration! Robert dead in the office,
Mark's body hidden in the passage--impossible to make Robert seem
the murderer, but how easy to make Mark! Robert dead and Mark
missing; why, it jumped to the eye at once. Mark had killed
Robert--accidentally; yes, that would be more likely--and then
had run away. Sudden panic .... (He looks at his watch again.
Fifteen minutes, but plenty of time now. The thing arranges
itself.)
Was that the solution, Antony wondered.
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