Now, will you first come upstairs?
Doctor Holloway is here and Simeox, but no one has entered the room since I left it; I thought it better that it should be left undisturbed until you came." "Quite so; we will go up at once." An examination of the room showed nothing whatever that would afford the slightest clew.

The Squire's watch was still in the watch pocket at the head of the bed, his purse was on a small table beside him; apparently nothing had been touched in the room.
"If robbery was the object," Sir Charles said gravely, "it has evidently not been carried out, and it is probable that Mr.Thorndyke was partly woke by the opening of the window, and that he was not thoroughly aroused until the man was close to his bed; then he leapt out and seized him.

Probably the stab was, as Dr.Holloway assures us, instantly fatal, and he may have fallen so heavily that the man, fearing that the house would be alarmed at the sound, at once fled, without even waiting to snatch up the purse.

The whole thing is so clear that it is scarcely necessary to ask any further questions.

Of course, there must be an inquest tomorrow.