“Stupid thing to do, to leave it in your pocket, dear boy!”
“Very.”
Ulverston tossed the coil aside. “Out with it, Ger! That’s what happened, ain’t it?”
“Yes.”
“Martin?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, one thing you do know is that he was in the grounds at the time!”
“So you say.”
“Dash it, it was Clarence who said so, and what reason had he to say it if it wasn’t true?”
“None. I don’t doubt it: I fancy Martin generally does take a gun out at sundown.”