Mr.Manley bade Holloway fetch Wilkins and two of the grooms, and then, eager for hints of the actions of a detective, so useful to a dramatist, gave all his attention again to the proceedings of Mr.Flexen, who was down on one knee on the spot in which the chair had stood, studying the carpet round it.

He rose and walked slowly towards the door which opened into the library, paused on the threshold to bid Perkins examine the chair and the clothes of the murdered man, and went into the library.
He was still in it when the footman and the grooms lifted the body of Lord Loudwater out of the chair, and carried it up to his bedroom.

Mr.
Manley stayed on the threshold of the smoking-room.

His interest in the doings of Mr.Flexen forbade him leaving it to superintend decorously the removal of the body.
Presently Mr.Flexen came back, and as he walked round the room, examining the rest of it, especially the carpet, Mr.Manley studied the man himself, the detective type.

He was about five feet eight, broad-shouldered out of proportion to that height, but thin.