Besides, I came down for a drink between eleven and twelve, and I'm almost sure I heard him snore.

He snored like the devil." "Slept every evening, did he?
That puts a different complexion on the business," said Mr.Flexen.

"The murderer need _not_ have been any one with whom he was familiar." "No.

He need not.

But are you quite sure that the wound wasn't self-inflicted--that it wasn't a case of suicide ?" said Mr.Manley.
"No, I'm not; and I don't think that that doctor--what's his name?
Thornhill--can be sure either.