An open flight along the gallery commended itself more to him than the doubtful one previously arranged for.

If you will accept that for fact, which of course you will not, it is easy to see how Correy might have been somewhere on that staircase when the inspiration came to turn the appearance of flight into a show of his own innocence, by a quick rush back into the further gallery and a consequent loud-mouthed alarm.

But I see that I am but getting deeper and deeper in the quagmire of a bad theory badly stated.

I am forgetting----" "Many things, Sweetwater.

I will only mention a very simple one.