"
"Also, someone broke in?"
"There were doors unfastened, and a great disturbance, so I suppose
someone must have done so."
I wondered if he would refer to the bat wing nailed to the door, but he
had evidently decided that this clue was without importance, nor did he
once refer to the aspect of the case which concerned Voodoo. He
possessed a sort of mulish obstinacy, and was evidently determined to
use no scrap of information which he had obtained from Paul Harley.
"Now, Madame," said he, "you heard the shot fired last night?"
"I did."
"It woke you up?"
"I was already awake."
"Oh, I see: you were awake?"
"I was awake."
"Where did you think the sound came from?"
"From back yonder, beyond the east wing."
"Beyond the east wing?" muttered Inspector Aylesbury. "Now, let me
see." He turned ponderously in his chair, gazing out of the windows.
"We look out on the south here? You say the sound of the shot came from
the east?"
"So it seemed to me."
"Oh." This piece of information seemed badly to puzzle him. "And what
then?"
"I was so startled that I ran to the door before I remembered that I
could not walk.
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