“I am not prepared to state that, but—I have made a discovery!”
CHAPTER XVII.
A THEORY FOUND.
The discovery Nick Carter made was this:
Where the body had been lying in the room, it had been surrounded by a pool of blood. But, when being dragged across the floor toward the door there had been no dropping of the sanguineous fluid. Then, after crossing the sill, the blood drops became visible and continued irregularly until this spot was reached, where there was quite a good-sized pool!
About this there was certainly something crooked. Blood would not flow plentifully one minute, cease the next, and flow again in that following.
What did he deduce from this?
The deduction was that these blood spots were not the result of the wound that had been inflicted on Mr. Field.
In other words they were placed there.
The purpose for doing so remained for Nick to discover.