CHAPTER 13"Good Lord! The devil must be about the place!" Lord Medchester ejaculated.
He was staring at Inspector Stoddart with an expression of utter bewilderment.
They were facing one another in the study, so-called. Lord Medchester had been fetched away from his dinner to hear the inspector's account of the discovery of Superintendent Mayer.
"It is unbelievable—inconceivable!" he went on, rubbing his bald forehead. "Another man shot close to my house. It—it's damnable! What's the meaning of it all, inspector?"
"I would give a good deal to know, Lord Medchester. We can only hope that Superintendent Mayer may be able to tell us—"
"Well, of course," his lordship assented. "But while we are waiting for the superintendent to tell us the devil who shot him may have got clean away."
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