"My father isn't in, and I don't know where he is--often he is out all night." "If we could just look round his shed, now ?" said the sergeant.

"Just to see if aught's missing, like, you know.

You see, miss----" "You can look round the shed--and round anywhere else," said Avice.
"Though what good that will do--well, you know where the shed is." She turned away and began taking off her hat and coat, and the four men went out into the garden and turned to the lean-to shed at the end of the cottage.

A tiled verandah ran along the front of cottage and shed, and the door of the shed was at its further end.

But as the sergeant was about to open it, the policeman of the observant nature made his third discovery.