Holmes."
"Don't we?" my friend answered thoughtfully. "I wonder!"
Chapter 5 - The People of the Drama
"Have you seen all you want of the study?" asked White Mason as
we reentered the house.
"For the time," said the inspector, and Holmes nodded.
"Then perhaps you would now like to hear the evidence of some of
the people in the house. We could use the dining room, Ames.
Please come yourself first and tell us what you know."
The butler's account was a simple and a clear one, and he gave a
convincing impression of sincerity. He had been engaged five
years before, when Douglas first came to Birlstone. He
understood that Mr. Douglas was a rich gentleman who had made his
money in America. He had been a kind and considerate
employer--not quite what Ames was used to, perhaps; but one can't
have everything. He never saw any signs of apprehension in Mr.
Douglas: on the contrary, he was the most fearless man he had
ever known. He ordered the drawbridge to be pulled up every
night because it was the ancient custom of the old house, and he
liked to keep the old ways up.
Mr. Douglas seldom went to London or left the village; but on
the day before the crime he had been shopping at Tunbridge Wells.
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