"It was raining heavily last night." With eyes sharpened by his discoveries, Galloway made a careful search of the carpet, and found several more crumbs of red clay between the window and the bed.

Near the bed he detected some splashes of candle-grease, which he detached from the carpet with his pocket-knife.
He also picked up the stump of a burnt wooden match, and the broken unlighted rink head of another.

After showing these things to his companions he placed them carefully in an empty match-box, which he put in his pocket.
"Somebody has bumped against this gas globe pretty hard," said Colwyn.
"The glass is broken and the incandescent burner smashed." He bent down to examine the white fragments of the burner which were scattered about the carpet, and as he did so he noticed another broken wooden match, and two more splashes of candle-grease directly beneath the gas-jet.

He removed the candle-grease carefully, and showed it to Galloway.
"More candle-grease!" the latter said.

"Well, that's not likely to prove anything except that Ronald was careless with his light.