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Page 55
"You're quite right, Inspector. Well, we mustn't keep you. Good
afternoon," and Antony smiled pleasantly at him.
"Good afternoon, sir."
"Good afternoon," said Bill.
Antony stood looking after the Inspector as he strode off, silent
for so long that Bill shook him by the arm at last, and asked him
rather crossly what was the matter.
Antony shook his head slowly from side to side.
"I don't know; really I don't know. It's too devilish what I
keep thinking. He can't be as cold-blooded as that."
"Who?"
Without answering, Antony led the way back to the garden-seat on
which they had been sitting. He sat there with his head in his
hands.
"Oh, I hope they find something," he murmured. "Oh, I hope they
do."
"In the pond?"
"Yes."
"But what?"
"Anything, Bill; anything."
Bill was annoyed. "I say, Tony, this won't do. You really
mustn't be so damn mysterious. What's happened to you suddenly?"
Antony looked up at him in surprise.
"Didn't you hear what he said?"
"What, particularly?"
"That it was Cayley's idea to drag the pond."
"Oh! Oh, I say!" Bill was rather excited again. "You mean that
he's hidden something there? Some false clue which he wants the
police to find?"
"I hope so," said Antony earnestly, "but I'm afraid--" He
stopped short.
"Afraid of what?"
"Afraid that he hasn't hidden anything there. Afraid that--"
"Well?"
"What's the safest place in which to hide anything very
important?"
"Somewhere where nobody will look."
"There's a better place than that."
"What?"
"Somewhere where everybody has already looked."
"By Jove! You mean that as soon as the pond has been dragged,
Cayley will hide something there?"
"Yes, I'm afraid so."
"But why afraid?"
"Because I think that it must be something very important,
something which couldn't easily be hidden anywhere else."
"What?" asked Bill eagerly.
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