“And yet the vet found no sign of poison in the horse’s body?”
“I don’t suppose he looked very careful-like, my Lord,” Yates replied. “The horse were dead and there was nothin’ he could do for it.”
Cledra had said that the poison had been administered in Jessop’s water and from what the Earl had just heard it was something that he was prepared to believe.
He therefore talked to his Head Groom and his Trainer and told them that in future the buckets containing the horses’ water were not to be left outside the stalls at any time.
What was more the stables were to be strictly watched at night so that it would be impossible for anybody to enter them unseen.
Both men were surprised by the Earl's orders, but knew that they must be strictly obeyed or there would be trouble.
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