There was not the slightest difficulty in devising an efficient means of pressing a trigger with a reduced pull by opening the door.

Any schoolboy could adjust a piece of string to act unfailingly.
By measuring distances, and careful sighting of the pistol when fixed in position, they arrived at a line of fire which would strike a body crouched in the lift about the region of the right shoulder.
Then Bates locked the scullery door, put the key in his pocket, and assured his trembling wife that she might sleep like a top, since no bloomin' Chinaman could get at her that night.

Theydon himself retired soon afterwards.

He was as tired as though he had been trudging steadily along country roads since daybreak.
When he awoke, it was broad daylight.

Around the corners of the drawn blinds in his bedroom he could see strips of golden sunshine.