It was certain from the finding of the body that Mr.Mills had travelled from London, as he intended, and that he had got out at this station.

It was certain also that at that hour the prisoner, burning for vengeance, and knowing the movements of Mr.Mills, was in the vicinity of Falmer.
To proceed, it was certain also that the prisoner in a very strange wild state had arrived at Mr.Taynton's house about nine that evening, knowing that Mr.Mills was expected there at about 9.30.Granted that he had committed the murder, this proceeding was dictated by the most elementary instinct of self-preservation.

It was also in accordance with that that he had gone round in the pelting rain late that night to see if the missing man had returned to his flat, and that he had gone to London next morning to seek him there.

He had not, of course, found him, and he returned to Brighton that afternoon.

In connection with this return, another painful passage lay before them, for it would be shown by one of the witnesses that again on the Friday afternoon the prisoner had visited the scene of the crime.