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Page 93
"In what terms?"
"Well--" he hesitated, and then went on. "I can't think of a
better word than 'peevishly.' Occasionally he said, 'What do you
think he wants?' or 'Why couldn't he have stayed where he was?'
or 'I don't like the tone of his letter. Do you think he means
trouble?' He talked rather in that kind of way."
"Did he express his surprise that his brother should be in
England?"
"I think he was always afraid that he would turn up one day."
"Yes .... You didn't hear any conversation between the brothers
when they were in the office together?"
"No. I happened to go into the library just after Mark had gone
in, and I was there all the time."
"Was the library door open?"
"Oh, yes."
"Did you see or hear the last witness at all?"
"No."
"If anybody had come out of the office while you were in the
library, would you have heard it?"
"I think so. Unless they had come out very quietly on purpose."
"Would you call Mark a hasty-tempered man?"
Cayley considered this carefully before answering.
"Hasty-tempered, yes," he said. "But not violent-tempered."
"Was he fairly athletic? Active and quick?"
"Active and quick, yes. Not particularly strong."
"Yes .... One question more. Was Mark in the habit of carrying
any considerable sum of money about with him?"
"Yes. He always had one 100 pound note on him, and perhaps ten
or twenty pounds as well."
"Thank you, Mr. Cayley."
Cayley went back heavily to his seat. "Damn it," said Antony to
himself, "why do I like the fellow?"
"Antony Gillingham!"
Again the eager interest of the room could be felt. Who was this
stranger who had got mixed up in the business so mysteriously?
Antony smiled at Bill and stepped up to give his evidence.
He explained how he came to be staying at the "George" at
Waldheim, how he had heard that the Red House was in the
neighbourhood, how he had walked over to see his friend Beverley,
and had arrived just after the tragedy. Thinking it over
afterwards he was fairly certain that he had heard the shot, but
it had not made any impression on him at the time. He had come
to the house from the Waldheim end and consequently had seen
nothing of Robert Ablett, who had been a few minutes in front of
him. From this point his evidence coincided with Cayley's.
"You and the last witness reached the French windows together and
found them shut?"
"Yes."
"You pushed them in and came to the body. Of course you had no
idea whose body it was?"
"No."
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