Do you realise what her position really is?
I mean with regard to her uncle's disappearance ?" "I don't think I quite understand you." "Well, there is no use in blinking the facts," said Thorndyke.

"The position is this: If John Bellingham ever went to his brother's house at Woodford, it is nearly certain that he went there after his visit to Hurst.

Mind, I say '_if_ he went'; I don't say that I believe he did.
But it is stated that he appears to have gone there; and if he did go, he was never seen alive afterwards.

Now, he did not go in at the front door.

No one saw him enter the house.