Yes. He waved his hands.
But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the
unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?
It is possible.
And you thought he was pulled back?
He disappeared so suddenly.
He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the room?
No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and the
Lascar was at the foot of the stairs.
Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his ordinary
clothes on?
But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare throat.
Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?
Never.
Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?
Never.
Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about which
I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little supper and
then retire, for we may have a very busy day to-morrow.
A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our
disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary after
my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, who, when he
had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for days, and even for
a week, without rest, turning it over, rearranging his facts, looking
at it from every point of view until he had either fathomed it or
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