To attribute folly to a man with such a mouth and such a chin was to own one's self a poor judge of human nature.

Therefore, the lamp overhead, with its electric connection and changing slides, had a meaning which at present could be sought for only in the evidences of scientific research observable in the books and apparatus everywhere surrounding him.
Letting the white light burn on, Mr.Gryce, by a characteristic effort, shifted his attention to the walls, covered, as I have said, with tapestries and curios.

There was nothing on them calculated to aid him in his research into the secret of this crime, unless--yes, there _was_ something, a bent-down nail, wrenched from its place, the nail on which the cross had hung which now lay upon the dead man's heart.

The cord by which it had been suspended still clung to the cross and mingled its red threads with that other scarlet thread which had gone to meet it from the victim's wounded breast.

Who had torn down that cross?
Not the victim himself.