Mold shuddered slightly.
“No, sir. I went off at once and rang you up.”
“You met no one hereabouts this morning?”
“No, sir.”
“And you saw no one last night, either?”
“No, sir.”
“It was somewhere round about here, wasn’t it, that you heard that mysterious shot you told us about?”
“Yes, sir. I was just here at the time.”
Mold walked about twenty yards past the tower, to show the exact position. Sir Clinton studied the lie of the land for a moment.
“H’m! Have you any questions you want to ask, Inspector?”