Theydon's words had suggested a new idea.

He opened the panel, tugged vigorously at a rope, and soon the lift itself, a sort of large cupboard, open at the side, came in view.
"By gum!" he muttered, gazing at its spacious depths, "I never thought of that." "You see what I'm driving at, then ?" "Why, of course, sir.

A moderate-sized man could stow away inside there and hoist himself to any floor.

It 'ud be perfectly easy an' safe as nails.

A hundredweight of coal is nothing to it." "I think we see now at least one method whereby the man who killed Mrs.
Lester could have entered the flat without her knowledge ?" "Not a doubt about it, sir.