"Ah, one moment.

Mr.Mills expressed to me the intention of perhaps getting out at Falmer and walking over the downs to Brighton.

But Thursday was the evening on which we had that terrible thunderstorm.

I should think it very unlikely that he would have left the train." Superintendent Figgis appeared to be trying to recollect something.
"Was there a thunderstorm on Thursday ?" he asked.
"The most severe I ever remember," said Mr.Taynton.
"It had slipped my memory," said this incompetent agent of justice.
But a little thought enabled him to ask a question that bore on the case.
"He travelled then by Lewes and not by the direct route ?" "Presumably.

He had a season ticket via Lewes, since our business often took him there.