I did everything that I could.

I searched the house inside and out, and Sergeant Lumbe has been scouring the country-side since daybreak looking for suspicious characters." "I am not blaming you, Caldew," responded Merrington, but his voice suggested the reverse of his words.

"I am merely pointing out to you the way the British public will look at it.

They will say, 'Here is a young wife murdered in the bosom of her home and family, and the murderer gets right away.

What do we pay the detective force for?
To let murderers escape ?' Mark my words, if we don't lay our hands on this chap quickly, we'll have the whole of the London press howling at our heels like a pack of wolves.