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"He didn't appear to be."
"Right . . . . Now then, he arrived, you say, about three
o'clock?"
"Yes, about that."
"Who was in the house then?"
"Mark and myself, and some of the servants. I don't know which.
Of course, you will ask them directly, no doubt."
"With your permission. No guests?"
"They were out all day playing golf," explained Cayley. "Oh, by
the way," he put in, "if I may interrupt a moment, will you want
to see them at all? It isn't very pleasant for them now,
naturally, and I suggested--" he turned to Antony, who nodded
back to him. "I understand that they want to go back to London
this evening. There's no objection to that, I suppose?"
"You will let me have their names and addresses in case I want to
communicate with them?"
"Of course. One of them is staying on, if you would like to see
him later, but they only came back from their golf as we crossed
the hall."
"That's all right, Mr. Cayley. Well, now then, let's go back to
three o'clock. Where were you when Robert arrived?"
Cayley explained how he had been sitting in the hall, how Audrey
had asked him where the master was, and how he had said that he
had last seen him going up to the Temple.
"She went away, and I went on with my book. There was a step on
the stairs, and I looked up to see Mark coming down. He went
into the office, and I went on with my book again. I went into
the library for a moment, to refer to another book, and when I
was in there I heard a shot. At least, it was a loud bang, I
wasn't sure if it was a shot. I stood and listened. Then I came
slowly to the door and looked out. Then I went back again,
hesitated a bit, you know, and finally decided to go across to
the office, and make sure that it was all right. I turned the
handle of the door and found it was locked. Then I got
frightened, and I banged at the door, and shouted, and--well,
that was when Mr. Gillingham arrived." He went on to explain how
they had found the body.
The inspector looked at him with a smile.
"Yes, well, we shall have to go over some of that again, Mr.
Cayley. Mr. Mark, now. You thought he was in the Temple. Could
he have come in, and gone up to his room, without your seeing
him?"
"There are back stairs. He wouldn't have used them in the
ordinary way, of course. But I wasn't in the hall all the
afternoon. He might easily have gone upstairs without my knowing
anything about it."
"So that you weren't surprised when you saw him coming down?"
"Oh, not a bit."
"Well, did he say anything?"
"He said, 'Robert's here?' or something of the sort. I suppose
he'd heard the bell, or the voices in the hall."
"Which way does his bedroom face? Could he have seen him coming
down the drive?"
"He might have, yes."
"Well?"
"Well, then, I said 'Yes,' and he gave a sort of shrug, and said,
'Don't go too far away, I might want you'; and then went in."
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