Chapter 6.

The scene of the crime.

Between them, the doctor and Monsieur Hote care the unconscious woman into the house.

The commissary looked after them shaking his head.

Paul for fem, he murmured to himself, the shock was too much for her.

Well, well, we can do nothing.

Now, Monsieur Polaro, shall we visit the place where the crime was committed?

If you please, Monsieur Bex, we pass through the house and out by the front door.

Paul Roe had booked up at the staircase and passing and shook his head in a dissatisfied manner.

It is to me incredible that the servants heard nothing,

the creaking of that staircase, with three people descending it would awaken the dead.

It was the middle of the night, remember, they were sound asleep by then.

But Paul Roe continued to shake his head as though not fully accepting the explanation.

On the sweep of the drive, he paused, looking up at the house.

What moved them in the first place to try if the front door were open?

It was the most unlikely thing that it should be.

It was far more probable that they should at once try to force a window.

But all the windows on the ground floor are barred with iron shutters, objected the commissary.

Paul Roe pointed to a window on the first floor.

That is the window of the bedroom we have just come from.

Is it not?

And see, there is a tree by which it would be the easiest thing in the world to mount.

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