He took off his heavy overcoat and handed it to his companion.

"Mind holding it ?" he asked.

"I want to have a good look at the exact spot from which Oliver must have fallen.

There's the gap--such as it is, and it doesn't look much from here, does it ?--in the green stuff, down below, so he must have been here on the parapet exactly above it.

Gad! it's very narrow, and a bit risky, this, when all's said and done!" Copplestone watched his companion make his way round to the place from which it was only too evident Oliver must have fallen.