"There you have it," cried Arkel, with a nod. "The wound at the back of the head was caused by his falling like a log when he was drugged."
"H'm! This is all building on sand," said Jen, doubtfully. "Even to drug him, these men must have entered by the window."
"No. Do you not remember when we examined the window that it was opened from the inside?"
"Egad, you are right. Then you think that someone must have been concealed in the room, and sprung out from hiding to drug Jaggard."
"No," said Arkel again, "no one was concealed in the room."
"Confound it, man, you don't mean to say that Jaggard opened the window?" cried Jen, starting from his seat with some show of temper.
"Ay, but I do, major. Jaggard helped to steal the body of Mr. Alymer. He opened the window to admit his accomplices. When they fulfilled their task and got the body out of the room they turned on Jaggard and betrayed him. That is, they drugged him and knocked him down."
"I don't agree with you at all, Arkel. Jaggard is perfectly honest and was as devoted to Maurice as he is to me. Besides, even granting the possibility of such a thing, which I do not in the least, why should Jaggard's accomplices betray him?"
"I can't say," returned Arkel, shrugging his shoulders. "They may have been bribed to steal the body, and on accomplishing their task did not want to share the bribe with Jaggard."
"Rubbish!" said Jen, tartly. "They must have known that he would betray them when he recovered his senses!"