"Can you handle the bow easily from where you now stand ?" "There is plenty of room." "Very well.

But wait! Before we proceed further, there is a matter to which I wish to call the attention of these gentlemen.

It must have been apparent to you all that a person standing where Mr.La Fleche did a moment ago would be easily visible to anyone looking up from the court or across from the opposite gallery, or even from the broad corridors at either end of the building.

But would the same hold true if instead of being in front he had been behind the pedestal, as Mr.La Fleche is now?
Run below, Barney; and, gentlemen, disperse yourselves in different directions and give me your opinion.

Now!" he demanded after a few minutes' wait, during which there had been a scattering to right and left along the galleries, "what do you say ?" "If anyone chanced to be looking directly there, yes," was shouted up from below.
"What do you say, Coroner Price ?" "Ask the man to kneel." The Inspector gave the word.
"Ah, that's different! The bulge of the vase hides the upper part of his head, and the pedestal itself the lower.