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But the bell didn't ring, and after maybe half an hour, I came out into the hall again to see if the woman had gone; and I walked past the door of this room but didn't hear nothing; and then I went on to the front door, and was surprised to find it wasn't latched." "Maybe you hadn't latched it," suggested Grady. "It has a snap-lock, sir; when that woman slammed it shut, I heard it catch."
Eric piled his correspondence under the butter-dish to await his secretary's arrival and turned methodically to The Times. Half-an-hour later he rang for his housekeeper and subjected her book to scrutiny. A leather-bound journal with a snap-lock lay on his table, and he next wrote his diary for the previous day. "So to dinner rather late with Lady Poynter to meet her nephew, Capt. Mrs.
He repeated his excellent gesture of despair, sighed, "All right," and left the room. The two pieces of Jim Dyckman's photograph were still on the floor of the hall. He stooped quickly and silently and picked them up as he went out. He closed the door with all the elegy one can put in a door with a snap-lock.
"Perhaps he had that prepared, too," I suggested timidly, ready to believe anything of this extraordinary man. "Perhaps he knew that we were there, all the time." "Of course he did," assented Godfrey grimly. "Why else would there be a snap-lock on the outside of the door? And to think I didn't see it!
The servant who came to the door did not know whether the doctor was in; she would go and see. But even as she said it the wind blew the door shut behind her. It had a snap-lock. "Oh!" she said, "I am shut out. If the doctor isn't in the house, I can't get in." We rang, but no one came. There was only one way: to try the windows. The poor girl could not be left in the street.
"Oh, no, sir; the front door has a snap-lock. It can't be opened from the outside without a key." "So you are perfectly sure that no one either entered or left the house by the front door while you and Rogers were sitting there?" "Nor by the back door either, sir; to get out the back way, you have to pass through the room where we were." "Where were the other servants?"
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