But he might have slipped out of the front door at half-past ten and climbed as you did over the wall to cross the park and drop over the other.

In this way he would elude the police." "Perhaps," said Cuthbert disbelievingly; "but it was nearly eleven when I left the park.

If anyone had been at my heels I would have noticed." "I am not so sure of that.

The park, as you say, is a kind of jungle.
The man might have seen you and have taken his precautions.

Moreover," added the detective, sitting up alertly, "he might have written to Miss Saxon saying he saw you on that night.