"But Varner says he saw him thrown!" "Very likely," answered Archdale.

"But it would all happen so quickly that Varner might easily be mistaken.

I'm speaking of something I know.
I know every inch of the Cathedral fabric--ought to, as we're always going over it, professionally.

Just at that doorway, at the head of St.
Wrytha's Stair, the flooring of the clerestory gallery is worn so smooth that it's like a piece of glass--and it slopes! Slopes at a very steep angle, too, to the doorway itself.

A stranger walking along there might easily slip, and if the door was open, as it was, he'd be shot out and into space before he knew what was happening." This theory produced a moment's silence--broken at last by Sackville Bonham.
"Varner says he saw--saw!--a man's hand, a gentleman's hand," insisted Sackville.