He went out at half-past eleven." "And the other gentleman ?" asked Rathbury.
"The other gentleman," answered the landlady, "went out with him.

The hall-porter said they turned towards the station.

And that was the last anybody in this house saw of Mr.Marbury.He certainly never came back." "That," observed Rathbury with a quiet smile, "that is quite certain, ma'am?
Well--I suppose we'd better see this Number 20 room, and have a look at what he left there." "Everything," said Mrs.Walters, "is just as he left it.

Nothing's been touched." It seemed to two of the visitors that there was little to touch.

On the dressing-table lay a few ordinary articles of toilet--none of them of any quality or value: the dead man had evidently been satisfied with the plain necessities of life.