In this way my second link was formed, which told me that the nocturnal visitors were two in number, one remarkable for his height (as I calculated from the length of his stride), and the other fashionably dressed, to judge from the small and elegant impression left by his boots.
"On entering the house this last inference was confirmed.

My well-booted man lay before me.

The tall one, then, had done the murder, if murder there was.

There was no wound upon the dead man's person, but the agitated expression upon his face assured me that he had foreseen his fate before it came upon him.

Men who die from heart disease, or any sudden natural cause, never by any chance exhibit agitation upon their features.