CHAPTER 14When Bruce Rhodian received a summons to attend the adjourned inquest on Professor Crewdon’s death he was surprised and somewhat irritated.
“Why the devil do they want to make me go down there to attend an inquiry and answer questions about an event which happened while I was in London?” he demanded. “They’ve arrested that chap Carter, apparently. Caught red-handed.”
Rhodian had been talking to Mrs. Merrion on the telephone, and shortly afterward another call came through from Macdonald.
“I expect you were surprised to get a summons for the inquest,” he said. “We want to put in some evidence about that incident in the cave, when Keston dropped a live match on some dead leaves. Lockersley is still laid up, and can’t give evidence, so we are calling you.”
“Be damned to you—just
