CHAPTER VIIAfter the ambulance had driven away from the Belfry, bearing the poor, mutilated remains which presented the C.I.D. with such a baffling problem, and Macdonald had left with his assistants, one watcher remained in the shadows at the back of the building. This was Detective Fuller, detailed to remain on guard in case any further developments occurred in the premises of The Morgue. Fuller expected nothing more than a boring night, during which he might exchange a cautious word with the point-duty man at given intervals, and long for the first streaks of dawn to lighten the eastern sky. It seemed to him that the focus point of interest had left with the ambulance—the corpse was unearthed and removed, and The Morgue, having yielded up its secret, was but one of those unoccupied prem
