CHAPTER VI AN INCREDIBLE CASE––––––––
WHEN Lockwood returned to the study, he found the Medical Examiner and Doctor Greenfield in consultation.
The Examiner was a large, pompous-looking man, with an air of authority. He looked at Gordon Lockwood from beneath his heavy brows, and demanded, “What do you know of this?”
The younger man resented the tone but he knew the question was justified, and so he replied, respectfully:
“Nothing more than you can see for yourself, sir. I broke in at that glass door, being unable to get in any other way, and I found Doctor Waring—as you see him now.”
“There was some other way, though, to get in and out,” Examiner Marsh stated.
“Positively not,” Lockwood repeated.
“Don’t contradict me! I tell you there must have been—for this man was murdered.”
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