Answer:
The diagrams show
that there are two different
ways in which
the routes
of the various persons involved in the Ravensdene Mystery
may be traced,
without any path ever crossing another.
It depends whether
the butler,
E,
went to the north or the south of the gamekeeper's cottage, and the
gamekeeper, A, went to the south or the north of the hall.
But it will
be
found that the only persons who could have approached Mr. Cyril
Hastings
without crossing a path were the butler, E, and the man, C..
It was,
however, a fact that the butler retired to bed five minutes before
midnight, whereas Mr. Hastings did not leave his friend's house until
midnight.
Therefore the
criminal must have been the man who
entered the
park at C.
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