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The
old
hall
,
oak
-
panelled
and
high
-
windowed
,
had
been
turned
into
a
court
of
investigation
.
Holmes
sat
in
a
great
,
old
-
fashioned
chair
,
his
inexorable
eyes
gleaming
out
of
his
haggard
face
.
I
could
read
in
them
a
set
purpose
to
devote
his
life
to
this
quest
until
the
client
whom
he
had
failed
to
save
should
at
last
be
avenged
.
The
trim
Inspector
Martin
,
the
old
,
grey
-
headed
country
doctor
,
myself
,
and
a
stolid
village
policeman
made
up
the
rest
of
that
strange
company
.
The
two
women
told
their
story
clearly
enough
.
They
had
been
aroused
from
their
sleep
by
the
sound
of
an
explosion
,
which
had
been
followed
a
minute
later
by
a
second
one
.
They
slept
in
adjoining
rooms
,
and
Mrs
.
King
had
rushed
in
to
Saunders
.
Together
they
had
descended
the
stairs
.
The
door
of
the
study
was
open
,
and
a
candle
was
burning
upon
the
table
.
Their
master
lay
upon
his
face
in
the
centre
of
the
room
.
He
was
quite
dead
.
Near
the
window
his
wife
was
crouching
,
her
head
leaning
against
the
wall
.
She
was
horribly
wounded
,
and
the
side
of
her
face
was
red
with
blood
.
She
breathed
heavily
,
but
was
incapable
of
saying
anything
.
The
passage
,
as
well
as
the
room
,
was
full
of
smoke
and
the
smell
of
powder
.
The
window
was
certainly
shut
and
fastened
upon
the
inside
.
Both
women
were
positive
upon
the
point
.
They
had
at
once
sent
for
the
doctor
and
for
the
constable
.
Then
,
with
the
aid
of
the
groom
and
the
stable
-
boy
,
they
had
conveyed
their
injured
mistress
to
her
room
.
Both
she
and
her
husband
had
occupied
the
bed
.
She
was
clad
in
her
dress
—
he
in
his
dressing
-
gown
,
over
his
night
-
clothes
.
Nothing
had
been
moved
in
the
study
.
So
far
as
they
knew
,
there
had
never
been
any
quarrel
between
husband
and
wife
.
They
had
always
looked
upon
them
as
a
very
united
couple
.
These
were
the
main
points
of
the
servants
’
evidence
.
In
answer
to
Inspector
Martin
,
they
were
clear
that
every
door
was
fastened
upon
the
inside
,
and
that
no
one
could
have
escaped
from
the
house
.
In
answer
to
Holmes
,
they
both
remembered
that
they
were
conscious
of
the
smell
of
powder
from
the
moment
that
they
ran
out
of
their
rooms
upon
the
top
floor
.
“
I
commend
that
fact
very
carefully
to
your
attention
,
”
said
Holmes
to
his
professional
colleague
.
“
And
now
I
think
that
we
are
in
a
position
to
undertake
a
thorough
examination
of
the
room
.
”
The
study
proved
to
be
a
small
chamber
,
lined
on
three
sides
with
books
,
and
with
a
writing
-
table
facing
an
ordinary
window
,
which
looked
out
upon
the
garden
.
Our
first
attention
was
given
to
the
body
of
the
unfortunate
squire
,
whose
huge
frame
lay
stretched
across
the
room
.
His
disordered
dress
showed
that
he
had
been
hastily
aroused
from
sleep
.
The
bullet
had
been
fired
at
him
from
the
front
,
and
had
remained
in
his
body
,
after
penetrating
the
heart
.
His
death
had
certainly
been
instantaneous
and
painless
.
There
was
no
powder
-
marking
either
upon
his
dressing
-
gown
or
on
his
hands
.
According
to
the
country
surgeon
,
the
lady
had
stains
upon
her
face
,
but
none
upon
her
hand
.
“
The
absence
of
the
latter
means
nothing
,
though
its
presence
may
mean
everything
,
”
said
Holmes
.
“
Unless
the
powder
from
a
badly
fitting
cartridge
happens
to
spurt
backward
,
one
may
fire
many
shots
without
leaving
a
sign
.
I
would
suggest
that
Mr
.
Cubitt
’
s
body
may
now
be
removed
.
I
suppose
,
Doctor
,
you
have
not
recovered
the
bullet
which
wounded
the
lady
?
”
“
A
serious
operation
will
be
necessary
before
that
can
be
done
.
But
there
are
still
four
cartridges
in
the
revolver
.
Two
have
been
fired
and
two
wounds
inflicted
,
so
that
each
bullet
can
be
accounted
for
.
”
“
So
it
would
seem
,
”
said
Holmes
.
“
Perhaps
you
can
account
also
for
the
bullet
which
has
so
obviously
struck
the
edge
of
the
window
?
”
He
had
turned
suddenly
,
and
his
long
,
thin
finger
was
pointing
to
a
hole
which
had
been
drilled
right
through
the
lower
window
-
sash
,
about
an
inch
above
the
bottom
.
