17, it could be he, I accept that." Winter nodded again.

Apparently he was content with Theydon's correction.
"As the weather was bad, you probably hurried in when your cab stopped ?" he said.
"That is equivalent to saying you credit me with sense enough to get in out of the wet," smiled Theydon.
"Just so.

And you wore an overcoat, which you removed on entering your hall ?" "Yes," and Theydon's tone showed a certain bewilderment at these trivialities.
"Then if you paid no special heed to the movements of the tall gentleman you have mentioned, why did you open one of these windows and look out soon after Bates went to the post ?" Theydon flushed like a schoolboy caught by a master under circumstances which youth generally describes as "a clean cop." "How on earth do you know I looked out ?" he almost gasped.
"I'll tell you willingly.

The discovery was Mr.Furneaux's, not mine.
When we came here this morning, and ascertained that you had been out at a late hour last night, we asked your man if he could enlighten us as to your movements.

He did so.