All the evidence we have been able to collect supports his statement.

We have interviewed Lyne's butler, and his account agrees with Stay's.

Stay left at five minutes past nine, and at twenty-five minutes to ten--exactly half an hour later--Lyne himself left the house, driving his two-seater.

He was alone, and told the butler he was going to his club." "How was he dressed ?" asked Tarling.
"That is rather important," nodded the Commissioner.

"For he was in evening dress until nine o'clock--in fact, until after Stay had gone--when he changed into the kit in which he was found dead." Tarling pursed his lips.
"He'd hardly change from evening into day dress to go to his club," he said.
He left Scotland Yard a little while after this, a much puzzled man.