CHAPTER XIWhile Macdonald was at the house in Park Village South, Robert Grenville sat hunched up over his fire in Furnival’s Court, smoking furiously, and trying to puzzle out some reasoning for the sequence of events in which he had been involved. During the day he had had visits both from the C.I.D. (plain clothes) and Metropolitan Police (uniformed branch) and his landlady was beginning to look anxious. The C.I.D. had informed him of the discovery of a corpse in the Belfry Studio, and warned him that his presence would be required at the inquest, though it was not certain if any evidence would be taken except that of the officers who had discovered the body. Grenville’s immediate inquiry as to the identity of the dead man had brought him no satisfaction. The matter was not beyond doubt
