“I should have thought you would.”
“I did not wish to again see that horrid sight alone. I am not a coward by any means, but it is not pleasant to go in and look at a man now dead who has been to you a warm friend in the past.”
“But, having released the other servants, you made up a party and entered Mr. Field’s room?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Who first discovered that the body was missing?”
“I did. Having seen it where it was lying, I naturally looked in the right direction at once, and when I found it was not there I could hardly believe my senses. At first I thought that he had not, after all, been killed, but had recovered his consciousness and had crawled to his bed, but on looking toward it I saw it was empty.”
“What next?”
“Why, we had not recovered from our astonishment when Mr. Barnes came in.”
“What was done after the arrival of this gentleman?”
“He wanted to know if robbery had been the motive of the deed, and so a search was made.”