title: An Oxford Tragedy
author:  J. C. Masterman 
description: The dons at St Thomas''s College are enjoying after-dinner port and cigars when a tutor is found shot to death. In the absence of clues, Scotland Yard can make littl e headway and it is left to a visiting Viennese lawyer to sh ed some light on the death. '
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  ## 9
  
  
  Nothing could have been more peaceful than the grounds and building of Melfort
  Abbey as the two men saw it that afternoon in the September sunshine. Portions
  of the Abbey were fifteenth century. It had been restored and a new wing added
  on to it. The new Sanatorium was out of sight of the house, with grounds of
  its own.
  
  
  Sir Charles and Mr. Satterthwaite were received by Mrs. Leckie, the cook, a
  portly lady, decorously gowned in black, who was tearful and voluble. Sir
  Charles she already knew, and it was to him she addressed most of her
  conversation.
  
  
  “You’ll understand, I’m sure, sir, what it’s meant to me. The master’s death
  and all. Policemen all over the place, poking their noses here and there -
  would you believe it, even the dustbins they had to have their noses in, and
  questions! - They wouldn’t have done with asking questions. Oh, that I should
  have lived to see such a thing - the d