Just light the lamp, Jervis, and let us examine it with a lens." I lit the lamp, and when we had examined the spot minutely and identified it as a mass of minute crystals, Thorndyke asked: "What do you make of those creases?
You see there is one on each leg." "It looks as if the trousers had been turned up.

But if they have been they must have been turned up about seven inches.

Poor Jeffrey couldn't have had much regard for appearances, for they would have been right above his socks.

But perhaps the creases were made in undressing the body." "That is possible," said Thorndyke: "though I don't quite see how it would have happened.

I notice that his pockets seem to have been emptied--no, wait; here is something in the waistcoat pocket." He drew out a shabby, pigskin card-case and a stump of lead pencil, at which latter he looked with what seemed to me much more interest than was deserved by so commonplace an object.
"The cards, you observe," said he, "are printed from type, not from a plate.