Horrible! horrible! It gave me the shudders to think of it--to think that poor old John may have been waylaid and murdered when he was actually coming to see me.

He may even have got into the grounds by the back gate, if it was left unfastened, and been followed in there and murdered.

You remember that a scarab from his watch-chain was found there?
But is it clear that this arm was the fellow of the arm that was found at Sidcup ?" "It seems to agree in character and dimensions," said Thorndyke, "and the agreement is strongly supported by a discovery that was made two days later." "What is that ?" Mr.Bellingham demanded.
"It is the lower half of a trunk which the police dredged out of a rather deep pond on the skirts of the forest at Loughton--Staple's Pond, it is called.

The bones found were the pelvis--that is, the two hipbones--and six vertebrae, or joints of the backbone.

Having discovered these, the police dammed the stream and pumped the pond dry, but no other bones were found; which is rather odd, as there should have been a pair of ribs belonging to the upper vertebra--the twelfth dorsal vertebra.