"Let us place ourselves in the position of the murderer, who probably knew the wood and wished to conceal a body in the vicinity without risk of conveying it far.

On this, the left side, the wood has been thinned out for nearly half a mile, and therefore affords but little cover, while here, to the right, it slopes down gently to the valley and is very thick and partly impenetrable.

There can therefore have been no two courses open to him.

He would look for a likely place to the right.

Let us start here, and first take a small circle, examining every bush carefully.