20/22 Today would have been the time for harrowing, but that work was indefinitely postponed by the grim visitor. No doubt this Armstrong was an industrious man. The sense of a wasted life was brought home to Bull; a bullet had ended it all! Absent-mindedly he passed around the side of the house and started for the east window through which Reeve had said that the bullet was fired, but he shook his head at once. Certainly a man stalking a house to fire a shot would never come up to it from this side! His own words were convicting Reeve of the murder! Still he continued to clamber over the stones until he stood by the window. |