"Just two more questions, Mr. Carne, and then we have done. Captain Mervyn, you say, had left the room when you entered it. Is there any other door to the drawing-room than that at which you were standing?"
"No, sir, there is no other door; the window was wide open, and as it is only three feet from the ground I have no doubt he went out that way. I heard him gallop off a minute or two later, so that he must have run straight round to the stables."
"In going from the drawing-room window to the stables, would he pass under the window of your sister's room?"
"No," Reginald replied. "That is quite the other side of the house."
"Then, in fact, the glove that was found there could not have been accidentally dropped on his way from the drawing-room to the stable?"
"It could not," Reginald Carne admitted, reluctantly.
"Thank you; if none of the jury wish to ask you any question, that is all we shall require at present."
The jury shook their heads. They were altogether too horrified at the turn matters were taking to think of any questions to the point. The Chief Constable then called the gardener, who testified that he had swept the lawn on the afternoon of the day the murder was committed, and that had a glove been lying at that time on the spot where it was discovered he must have noticed it.
When the man had done, Captain Hendricks intimated that that was all the evidence that he had at present to call.
"Now, Captain Mervyn," the coroner said, "you will have an opportunity of explaining this matter, and, no doubt, will be able to tell us where you were at the time Miss Carne met her death, and to produce witnesses who will at once set this mysterious affair, as far as you are concerned, at rest."