It was a point which interested him.
"Nearly all of you have assumed," the Colonel continued, "that it must have taken a strong man to draw the cord tight enough to have killed that poor fellow without any noticeable struggle.

As a matter of fact, a child with that particular knot could have done it.

It requires no strength, only delicacy of touch, rapidity and nerve." "A woman, then--" Wrayson began.
"Bless you, yes! a woman could have done it easily," the Colonel declared, "only unfortunately there don't seem to have been any women about.

Why, I've seen it done in Korea with a turn of the wrist.

It's all knack." Wrayson shuddered slightly.