Chapter 37

The effect of this announcement was instant and stupendous. The Colonel called upon his gods. "Not killed fair? It's a stark impossibility, sir. You had the water guarded like the Bank of England." Archie expressed like suspicions; Agatha was sad and sympathetic, Janet amused and covertly joyful. "I reckon it was fair enough fishing," Junius went on. "I've been trying to puzzle the thing out, and this is what I make of it. Macnab was in league with one of those pressmen, who started out to trespass inside the park …