12/29 Then the servants and my friends came and we ran out, to find the man lying by that shrubbery quite dead. I turned him over and had just grasped the fact that he was my brother-in-law, when Lady Agnes ran out. The women carried her back to her room, and we took the body of Pine into the house. A doctor came along this morning--for I sent for a doctor as soon as it was dawn--and said that Pine had been shot through the heart." "And who shot him ?" asked Darby sagely. "Someone was concealed there," he declared. |