Читать книгу The Man Inside онлайн

43 страница из 64

“Perhaps he was first murdered and then carried out and put into the carriage.”

“Perhaps so, but I doubt it.”

“He may have entered the carriage at the stable when Hamilton was not around.”

“I thought of that,” returned Brett, “and as soon as it was daylight examined the yard and the alley. The concrete walk from the house to the stable is being laid now and cannot be used, so that one has to tread on the ground, which is extremely soft and muddy. The alley is a long one, and Carew’s stable is about in the center of it, and the rain, settling in the holes of the uneven cobbles, made walking very unpleasant. I am telling you all these details because of another discovery I made,” went on Brett slowly; “the Senator’s shoes had been recently polished and the blacking was not even stained.”

Douglas leaned back and bit his thumb nail, a childish habit of which he had never been able to break himself.

“Where did Carew spend the evening?” he asked finally.

“That is what I have not been able to find out,” growled Brett. “Mrs. Winthrop told me she had not seen her brother since breakfast. That he went to the Capitol as usual in the morning. She was told on entering the house just before dinner that he would not return for that meal, but they did not state where he was going.”