"I have asked him to help me to find out who killed my father."
"That is, Captain Kyles is hunting for poor Herries."
"Oh, I don't mean that, but--why, here is Bruce," she turned towards the passage that ran beside the stairs, and smiled. "Bruce!"
In response, a tall dark man, with deep-set eyes and a reckless bearing, advanced into the hall. He held out a telegram to Miss Tedder.
"It has just come from the Inspector," he said, with a stealthy glance at the commonplace looks of Dr. Browne.
Maud ran her eye over the paper, and passed it to her visitor.
"That may help either to save or condemn my cousin," she said, quickly.
"Armour the policeman has been found, bound hand and foot, in a ditch near the river," read Browne. "Humph! What does that mean?"
"I take it to mean that Armour killed Sir Simon," said Kyles in a deep voice, and very composedly.