The line of searching policemen had reached the woods and made their way through the murkled shadows of the thick oak and sycamore canopy, suddenly chilled as the temperature dropped in the harsh shade. The searchers prodded and poked with their broom sticks into the ground-layer of bushes and shrubs. Insects buzzed in their ears as birds, startled by the presence of the searchers screeched a warning. Wood pigeons and doves cooed as a raucous parliament of crows argued and bickered deeper in the woods.
The line of searching policemen had reached the woods and made their way through the murkled shadows of the thick oak and sycamore canopy, suddenly chilled as the temperature dropped in the harsh shade. The searchers prodded and poked with their broom sticks into the ground-layer of bush
