“I did listen a moment or two.”
“Why did you listen? what did you suspect?”
“I do not know; there are times when we do things the most trivial without being able to explain why or wherefore.”
“So there are. Your belief that you heard voices, and the statement that you saw two figures, clearly point to the theory of murder as against suicide.”
“Yes,” said Lionel.
“How could the murderer have escaped? You were on the spot in an instant almost, it seems.”
“I was there very quickly.”
“And you saw no one?”
“No, only Tallant on the ground.”
“From what Masters says, there is no doubt that that fool of a policeman has taken it into his thick head that you killed Richard Tallant,” said his lordship, in a tone of contemptuous coolness.