How do you account for the cracked gas globe and the broken incandescent mantle ?" "Ronald probably knocked his head against it as he approached the bed," said Galloway promptly.
"Hardly.

Ronald's height, according to the description, is five feet ten inches.

That happens to be also my height, and I can pass under the gas globe without touching it." "Then it was broken when Ronald was carrying the corpse downstairs," replied Galloway, after a moment's reflection.

"He carried the corpse on his shoulders and part of the body would be above his head." "Superintendent Galloway has an answer for everything," said Colwyn with a smile, to Mr.Cromering.

"He is persuasive if not always convincing." "The case seems clear enough to me," said the chief constable thoughtfully.