"To think that such a man should have been struck down by an assassin's blow.

What a loss!" "Let us see how he was murdered," said the more practical Galloway, who was standing beside his superior officer.

He drew off the covering sheet as he spoke, and dropped it lightly on the floor.
The body thus revealed was that of a slightly built man of medium height.

It was clad in a flannel sleeping suit, spattered with mud and clay, and oozing with water.

The arms were inclining outwards from the body, and the legs were doubled up.