CHAPTER 6During the remainder of the day Macdonald interrogated everyone else in the Valehead household. Carter gave a straightforward description of his visit to the cave when he and Eve Merrion saw the professor’s body lying there. Carter said bluntly that it was owing to his own insistence that the body had been removed so promptly. He would have considered it neither right nor proper to leave the body lying “in that there heathenish place.” Whether the brazier had been standing upright or knocked over he could not say, he had noticed nothing but the professor’s body.
“A shocking thing, I thought it,” he said to Macdonald. “Many’s the time I’ve said to Brady, ‘He’s asking for trouble, spending the nights in that there hole,’ but I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw him lying dead
