I pointed out to him that in spots like this, where there's naught nearer than them houses at the foot of the hill one way, and Harborough's cottage another way, and both of 'em a good quarter of a mile off, and where there's all these coverts and coppices and rocks, it was not safe for an elderly man who sported a fine gold watch and chain to go wandering about in the darkness.

There's always plenty of bad characters in country places who'd knock the King himself on the head for the sake of as much as Mr.Kitely had on him, even if it was no more than the chain which every Tom and Dick could see! And it's turned out just as I prophesied.

He's come to it!" "But you said just now that he must have been murdered for something else than his valuables," said Brereton.
"I said that if his papers were gone, somebody must have wanted them bad," retorted Miss Pett.

"Anyway, what's happened is just what I felt might happen, and there he is--dead.

And I should be obliged to some of you if you'd send up a woman or two to help me lay him out, for I can't be expected to do everything by myself, nor to stop in this cottage alone, neither!" Leaving the doctor and a couple of policemen to arrange matters with the housekeeper, the sergeant went outside, followed by the others.