"It wasn't
so bad inside. Colonel McIntyre," Kent stopped a moment to remove a
piece of red sealing wax clinging to the cuff of his suit. It had
not been there when he entered the casket. Kent dropped the wax in
his vest pocket as he again addressed his host. "Who first
discovered Grimes in the casket?"
"Mrs. Brewster."
"And what was Mrs. Brewster doing in the library at that hour?"
glancing keenly at McIntyre as he put the question.
"She could not sleep and came down for a book," explained the
Colonel.
Ferguson, who had walked several times around the library, looking
behind first one and then the other of the seven doors, paused to
ask:
"What attracted Mrs. Brewster's attention to the casket?"
"The blood stain on its side," McIntyre answered.
"What - that!" Ferguson eyed McIntyre
incredulously. "Come, sir, do you mean to tell me she noticed that
little bit of a stain in a dark room?"
"She had an electric torch," shortly.
"But why should she turn the torch on this casket?" persisted the
detective. "She came to the library for a book, and the bookcases
are in another part of the room.
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