The next person to appear was a gentleman who left some offices on the same side as the passage, and walked down evidently on his homeward way.

He glanced up the passage and saw the body lying there.

He disappeared for a moment and struck a match.
A minute afterwards he emerged from the passage, looked up and down the street, and finding it empty returned to the office from which he had issued, let himself in with his latchkey, and closed the door behind him.

He was there for about ten minutes.

When he reappeared, he walked quickly down the street and for obvious reasons I was unable to follow him.
The address of the offices which he left and re-entered was Messrs.