What made you ask ?" "The name which Jervis heard poor Jeffrey struggling to pronounce seemed to me to resemble Pauline more than any other name." "There is one little point that strikes me," said Marchmont.

"Is it not rather remarkable that the porter should have noticed no difference between the body of Jeffrey and the living man whom he knew by sight, and who must, after all, have been distinctly different in appearance ?" "I am glad you raised that question," Thorndyke replied, "for that very difficulty presented itself to me at the beginning of the case.

But on thinking it over, I decided that it was an imaginary difficulty, assuming, as we do, that there was a good deal of resemblance between the two men.

Put yourself in the porter's place and follow his mental processes.

He is informed that a dead man is lying on the bed in Mr.
Blackmore's rooms.