The only door that opened into the court was that of the keeper's room, and that door was closed, and the key of it was found in the keeper's pocket.
However that might be, the examining magistrate did not pursue his inquiry further in this direction.

He was evidently convinced that we had missed the man we were chasing and we had come upon the keeper's body in our chase.

This matter of the keeper was another matter entirely.

He wanted to satisfy himself about that without any further delay.

Probably it fitted in with the conclusions he had already arrived at as to the keeper and his intrigues with the wife of Mathieu, the landlord of the Donjon Inn.