"I say!--that old gentleman you let the cottage to--Kitely, you know." "What of him ?" demanded Cotherstone sharply.
"He's lying there in the coppice above your house--I stumbled over him coming through there just now," replied Garthwaite.

"He--don't be frightened, Miss Cotherstone--he's--well, there's no doubt of it--he's dead! And----" "And--what ?" asked Cotherstone.

"What, man?
Out with it!" "And I should say, murdered!" said Garthwaite.

"I--yes, I just saw enough to say that.

Murdered--without a doubt!".