It seems impossible, going on what you tell us from the evidence you've collected, that he could ever have approached that Devil's Spout place unseen; it also seems impossible that he could have had a fatal fall over the cliffs, since his body has not been found.

No--we think something befell him in the neighbourhood of Scarhaven Keep.

But what?
Foul play?
Possibly! If it was--why?
And there are three people Mr.Petherton and I would like to speak to, privately--the fisherman, Ewbank, Mr.Marston Greyle, and Mrs.Valentine Greyle.

We should like to hear Ewbank's story for ourselves; we certainly want to see the Squire; and I, personally, wish to see Mrs.Greyle because, from what Mr.Copplestone there has told us, I am quite sure that I, too, knew her a good many years ago, when she was acquainted with my brother Bassett.

So we propose, Mr.Stafford, to go and see these three people--and when we have seen them, I will tell you and Mr.Copplestone exactly what I, as my brother's representative, wish to be done." The two younger men waited impatiently in and about the hotel while their elders went on their self-appointed mission.