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said Miss Waddy . Little by little Mavis pieced the story together . Mr. Barradine had been out riding late yesterday , and the riderless horse had given the alarm some time about nine o'clock in the evening . But , although a wide-spread search continued all through the night , the body was not found until past noon to-day . They had found it at Kibworth Rocks . These rocks , situated in Hadleigh Wood , about two miles from the Abbey , were of curious formation -- a wide mass of jagged boulders cropping out unexpectedly from the sandy soil , some of them half hidden with bracken , while others , the bigger ones , rose brown and bare and strange . They provided a redoubtable fortress for foxes , and contained what was known as the biggest `` earth '' of the neighborhood .