But I think he may make a statement.

There were some exceptional circumstances, I feel sure." "How long have you known that the body was in the Museum ?" I asked.
"About thirty or forty seconds longer than you have, I should say." "Do you mean," I exclaimed, "that you didn't know until the negative was developed ?" "My dear fellow," he replied, "do you suppose that, if I had had certain knowledge where the body was, I should have allowed that noble girl to go on dragging out a lingering agony of suspense that I could have cut short in a moment?
Or that I should have made these humbugging pretences of scientific experiments if a more dignified course had been open to me ?" "As to the experiments," said Jervis, "Norbury could hardly have refused if you had taken him into your confidence." "Indeed he could, and probably would.

My 'confidence' would have involved a charge of murder against a highly respectable gentleman who was well known to him.

He would probably have referred me to the police, and then what could I have done?
I had plenty of suspicions, but not a single solid fact." Our discussion was here interrupted by hurried footsteps on the stairs and a thundering rat-tat on our knocker.
As Jervis opened the door, Inspector Badger burst into the room in a highly excited state.
"What is all this, Doctor Thorndyke ?" he asked.

"I see you've sworn an information against Mr.Jellicoe, and I have a warrant to arrest him; but before anything is done I think it right to tell you that we have more evidence than is generally known pointing to quite a different quarter." "Derived from Mr.Jellicoe's information," said Thorndyke.