Shortly afterwards the body of Mr.Roger Glenthorpe, an elderly archaeologist, who had been staying at the inn for some time past making researches into the fossil remains common to that part of Norfolk, was found in a pit near the house.

The tracks of boot-prints from near the inn to the mouth of the pit, and back again, indicate that Mr.Glenthorpe was murdered in his bedroom at the inn, and his body afterwards carried by the murderer to the pit in which it was found." "In order to conceal the crime ?" said Colwyn.
"Precisely.

Two men employed by Mr.Glenthorpe saw the footprints earlier in the morning, and when it was discovered that Mr.Glenthorpe was missing, one of them was lowered into the pit by a rope and found the body at the bottom.

The pit forms a portion of a number of so-called hut circles, or prehistoric shelters of the early Briton, which are not uncommon in this part of Norfolk." "And you have strong grounds for believing that this young man Ronald, who was staying at the _Grand_ till yesterday, is the murderer ?" "The very strongest.

He slept in the room next to the murdered man's, and disappeared hurriedly in the early morning from the inn some time before the body was discovered.