Let us have a look at the other rooms; there is nothing here." We went up to the next floor and found traces of recent occupation in one room only.

The garrets had evidently been unused, and the kitchen and ground-floor rooms offered nothing that appeared to Thorndyke worth noting.

Then we went out by the side door and down the covered way into the yard at the back.

The workshops were fastened with rusty padlocks that looked as if they had not been disturbed for months.

The stables were empty and had been tentatively cleaned out, the coach-house was vacant, and presented no traces of recent use excepting a half-bald spoke-brush.