'Oh, nothing of course,' answered Lady Knollys, I thought a little drily.
CHAPTER XXVII
_MORE ABOUT TOM CHARKE'S SUICIDE_
So the inquest was held, and Mr. Manwaring, of Wail Forest, was the only
juryman who seemed to entertain the idea during the inquiry that Mr. Charke
had died by any hand but his own.
'And how _could_ he fancy such a thing?' I exclaimed indignantly.
'Well, you will see the result was quite enough to justify them in saying
as they did, that he died by his own hand. The window was found fastened
with a screw on the inside, as it had been when the chambermaid had
arranged it at nine o'-clock; no one could have entered through it.
Besides, it was on the third story, and the rooms are lofty, so it stood
at a great height from the ground, and there was no ladder long enough
to reach it. The house is built in the form of a hollow square, and Mr.
Charke's room looked into the narrow court-yard within. There is but one
door leading into this, and it did not show any sign of having been open
for years. The door was locked upon the inside, and the key in the lock,
so that nobody could have made an entrance that way either, for it was
impossible, you see, to unlock the door from the outside.
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