Nevertheless, if you want to examine the garden, do
so by all means."
He turned without another word and stamped out of the library across
the hall and into the courtyard.
"I will join you again in a few minutes, Wessex," said Paul Harley,
following.
"Very good, Mr. Harley," Wessex answered. "I know you wouldn't have had
me down if the case had been as simple as he seems to think it is."
I joined Harley, and we walked together up the gravelled path, meeting
Inspector Aylesbury and the constable returning.
"Go ahead, Mr. Harley!" cried the Inspector. "If you can find any
stronger evidence than the rifle, I shall be glad to take a look at
it."
Harley nodded good-humouredly, and together we descended the steps to
the sunken garden. I was intensely curious respecting the investigation
which Harley had been so anxious to make here, for I recognized that it
was associated with something which he had seen from the window of
Camber's hut.
He walked along the moss-grown path to the sun-dial, and stood for a
moment looking down at the spot where Menendez had lain. Then he stared
up the hill toward the Guest House; and finally, directing his
attention to the yews which lined the sloping bank:
"One, two, three, four," he counted, checking them with his fingers--
"five, six, seven.
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