You walked round the room several times, and you knelt down by the body, and then you walked through and tried the kitchen door, and then----" John Rance sprang to his feet with a frightened face and suspicion in his eyes.

"Where was you hid to see all that ?" he cried.

"It seems to me that you knows a deal more than you should." Holmes laughed and threw his card across the table to the constable.
"Don't get arresting me for the murder," he said.

"I am one of the hounds and not the wolf; Mr.Gregson or Mr.Lestrade will answer for that.

Go on, though.