I trust I do not weary you with these particulars ?" "I'll ask you to cut it as short as you can, Mr.Jellicoe," said Badger.
"It has been a long yarn and time is running on." "For my part," said Thorndyke, "I find these details deeply interesting and instructive.

They fill in the outline that I had drawn by inference." "Precisely," said Mr.Jellicoe; "then I will proceed.
"I left the deceased soaking in the spirit for a fortnight and then took him out, wiped him dry, and laid him on four cane-bottomed chairs just over the hot-water pipes.

I turned off the hot water in the other rooms so as to concentrate the heat in these pipes, and I let a free current of air pass through the room.

The result interested me exceedingly.

By the end of the third day the hands and feet had become quite dry and shrivelled and horny--so that the ring actually dropped off the shrunken finger--the nose looked like a fold of parchment; and the skin of the body was so dry and smooth that you could have engrossed a lease on it.
For the first day or two I turned the deceased at intervals so that he should dry evenly, and then I proceeded to get the case ready.