Chapter 9

By its light we examined the stain more closely. The average width was about six inches, though it narrowed off towards the bottom. But one very peculiar point about it was that near the top were a number of strange loops and smears, stretching away out of the main stream. They were the sort of smears that a child might make who had dipped its fingers in the blood, and had then started to draw patterns. “The person who sat in this seat must have bled like a pig,” said Darrell gravely. “From a wound in the head obvi…