"I only saw them afterwards. I was looking for the collar, you
remember. They came back to me afterwards; I knew how Cayley
would feel about it .... Poor devil!"
"Go on," said Bill.
"Well, then, we had the inquest, and of course I noticed, and I
suppose you did too, the curious fact that Robert had asked his
way at the second lodge and not at the first. So I talked to
Amos and Parsons. That made it more curious. Amos told me that
Robert had gone out of his way to speak to him; had called to
him, in fact. Parsons told me that his wife was out in their
little garden at the first lodge all the afternoon, and was
certain that Robert had never come past it. He also told me that
Cayley had put him on to a job on the front lawn that afternoon.
So I had another guess. Robert had used the secret passage--the
passage which comes out into the park between the first and
second lodges. Robert, then, had been in the house; it was a
put-up job between Robert and Cayley. But how could Robert be
there without Mark knowing? Obviously, Mark knew too.
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