I thought at first that Mr.
Glenthorpe might have got up early to go and look at his excavations, but I went up to his room and saw the signs of a struggle and blood-stains on the bed-clothes, and I knew that something must have happened to him.

I went into the village and told Constable Queensmead.
He came to the inn, and made a search inside and outside and found the footprints leading to the pit on the rise.

One of Mr.Glenthorpe's men who had been down the pit for flints was lowered by a rope, and brought up the body." The innkeeper took a leather wallet from his pocket and produced from it a Treasury L1 note.

"This is the note the young gentleman left behind with Ann to pay his bill," he explained, pushing it across the table to the chief constable.
"I would draw your attention, sir, to the fact that this Treasury note is one of the first issue--printed in black on white paper," remarked Superintendent Galloway to his superior officer.

"Constable Queensmead has ascertained that the L300 which Mr.Glenthorpe drew out of the bank yesterday was all in L1 notes of the first issue.