Mr.
Manley introduced him to Mr.Flexen; then he unlocked the door and opened it.
The doctor was leading the way into the smoking-room when Mr.Flexen stepped smartly in front of him and said: "Please stay outside all of you.

I'll make the examination myself first." He spoke quietly, but in the tone of a man used to command.
"But, for anything we know, his lordship may still be alive," said Dr.
Thornhill in a somewhat blustering tone, and pushing forward.

"As his medical adviser, it's my duty to make sure at once." "I'll tell you whether Lord Loudwater is alive or not.

Don't let any one cross the threshold, Perkins," said Mr.Flexen, with quiet decision.
Perkins laid a hand on the doctor's arm, and the doctor said: "A nice way of doing things! Arbuthnot would have given his first attention to his lordship!" "I'm going to," said Mr.Flexen quietly.
He went to the dead man, looked in his pale face, lifted his hand, let it fall, and said: "Been dead hours." Then he examined carefully the position of the knife.

He was more than a minute over it.