She saw the man--of course she never guessed that he was Pine--running down the path and saw him fall by the shrubbery when the second shot was fired." "Her bedroom is then on this side of the house, my lord ?" "Up there," said Garvington, pointing directly over the narrow door, which was painted a rich blue color, and looked rather bizarre, set in the puritanic greyness of the walls.

"My own bedroom is further along towards the right.

That is why I heard the footsteps so plainly on this gravel." And he stamped hard, while with a wave of his hand he invited the inspector to examine the surroundings.
Darby did so with keen eyes and an alert brain.

The two stood on the west side of the mansion, where it fronted the three-miles distant Abbot's Wood.

The Manor was a heterogeneous-looking sort of place, suggesting the whims and fancies of many generations, for something was taken away here, and something was taken away there, and this had been altered, while that had been left in its original state, until the house seemed to be made up of all possible architectural styles.