I'll inquire in the morning if any of the villagers are suspicious characters, or whether any of Glenthorpe's men had a grudge against him." "Now let us leave theories and speculations and come to facts.

Our investigations of the murdered man's room this afternoon gave us several clues, not the least important of which is that we are enabled to fix the actual time of the murder with some degree of accuracy.

It is always useful, in a case of murder, to be able to establish the approximate time at which it was committed.

In this case, the murder was certainly committed between the hours of 11 p.m.and 11.30 p.m., and, in all probability, not much before half-past eleven." "How do you fix it so accurately as that ?" asked the police officer, looking keenly at the detective.
"According to Ann, the gentlemen went to their rooms about half-past ten, and she turned off the gas downstairs shortly afterwards, and went to bed herself.

When we examined the room this afternoon, we found patches of red mud of the same colour and consistency of the soil outside the window leading from the window to the bedside, and a pool--a small isolated pool--of water near the open window.