He is not a fool, and had he stabbed
his brother and this woman, he would have seen that by placing the
knife near her he could help to make it appear as if she had killed
Chetney and then committed suicide. Besides, Lord Arthur insisted
that the evidence in his behalf would be our finding the knife here.
He would not have urged that if he knew we would NOT find it, if he
knew he himself had carried it away. This is no suicide. A suicide
does not rise and hide the weapon with which he kills himself, and
then lie down again. No, this has been a double murder, and we must
look outside of the house for the murderer.'
"While he was speaking, Lyle and I had been searching every corner,
studying the details of each room. I was so afraid that, without
telling me, he would make some deductions prejudicial to Arthur, that
I never left his side. I was determined to see everything that he
saw, and, if possible, to prevent his interpreting it in the wrong
way. He finally finished his examination, and we sat down together in
the drawing-room, and he took out his note-book and read aloud all
that Mr. Sears had told him of the murder and what we had just
learned from Arthur.
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