So, after knocking and getting no answer, she opened the door, and found the room empty." "The door was not locked, though the key was in the door ?" "No, sir, and everything in the room was just as usual.

Nothing had been disturbed." "And was that bedroom window open when you found the room empty ?" asked Superintendent Galloway, pointing to it through the open doorway.
"Yes, sir--just as you see it now.

I gave orders that nothing was to be touched." "Ronald slept in this room," said Queensmead, indicating the door of the adjoining bedroom.
"We will look at that later," said Galloway.
The interior of the room they entered was surprisingly light and cheerful and spacious, having nothing in common with those low gloomy vaults, crammed with clumsy furniture and moth-eaten stuffed animals, which generally pass muster as bedrooms in English country inns.

Instead of the small circular windows of the south side, there was a large modern two-paned window in a line with the door, opening on to the other side of the house.

The bottom pane was up, and the window opened as wide as possible.