I guarantee if you walked through the village now you wouldn't see a soul stirring." "Ronald was not likely to know that.

Next, how did Ronald, a stranger to the place, know the locality of this pit so accurately as to be able to walk straight to it ?" "Easily.

He might have approached the inn from that side, and passed it on his way.

And nothing is more likely than Mr.Glenthorpe would tell him about the pit in the course of his conversation about the excavations.

There is also the possibility that Ronald knew of the existence of the pit from a previous visit to this part of the country." "My next point is that Ronald was put to sleep in what he imagined was an upstairs bedroom.