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The mist was creeping out of the darkness on both sides of the moat-house, casting a film across the faint light which gleamed from one or two of the heavily shuttered windows.

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Musard, who assisted Miss Heredith to answer the questions, was rather impressed by the quick intelligence the detective displayed in eliciting all the known facts of the murder, but Sergeant Lumbe, who remained standing near the door, was shocked to hear Caldew cross-questioning the great folk of the moat-house with such little ceremony.

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Dinner at the moat-house was a solemn and ceremonious function.

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He had some difficulty in recognizing Detective Caldew as the village urchin of a score of years before who had touched his cap to the moat-house butler as a great personage, second only in importance to Sir Philip Heredith himself.

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The butler left the moat-house at a brisk pace which became almost a run after he crossed the moat bridge.

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He was a sound judge of cattle and horses, but of human nature he knew nothing whatever, and his first act, on being informed of the murder at the moat-house, was to ring up

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"To the south side of the moat-house," replied Musard.

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The latter, distrustful of the ability of the county police to bring such an atrocious murderer to Justice, had begged the help of Scotland Yard, with the result that Superintendent Merrington and his assistants appeared at the moat-house in the early morning before the astonished eyes of Caldew, who was taking a walk in the moat-house garden after a night of fruitless investigations.

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It was the young husband who had suggested that they should liven up the old moat-house by inviting some of their former London friends down to stay with them.

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The chandelier was never lit, as the moat-house was illuminated by electric light, but it looked very pretty, and was the apple of Miss

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