Moreover, he meant to kill--" "But the two men talked together outside the Square gates," protested Polly, "one of whom was Cohen, and the other Ashley." "Pardon me," he said, jumping up in his seat like a monkey on a stick, "there were not two men talking outside the Square gates.

According to the testimony of James Funnell, the constable, two men were leaning arm in arm against the railings and _one_ man was talking." "Then you think that--" "At the hour when James Funnell heard Holy Trinity clock striking half-past two Aaron Cohen was already dead.

Look how simple the whole thing is," he added eagerly, "and how easy after that--easy, but oh, dear me! how wonderfully, how stupendously clever.

As soon as James Funnell has passed on, John Ashley, having opened the gate, lifts the body of Aaron Cohen in his arms and carries him across the Square.

The Square is deserted, of course, but the way is easy enough, and we must presume that Ashley had been in it before.