CHAPTER III

MUDSTAINS AND BLOODSTAINS "_Other things are all very well in their way, but give me_ _Blood.... We say, 'There it is! that's Blood!' It is an_ _actual matter of fact. We point it out. It admits of no_ _doubt.... We must have Blood, you know_." DAVID COPPERFIELD "Hitherto," said Lord Peter, as they picked their painful way through the little wood on the trail of Gent's No. 10's, "I have always maintained that those obliging criminals…