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Updated: June 24, 2025
"The servants, in the hall, are bewailing him as dead. If they had seen him go out they would know that it must be someone else who lies here." "What about the Chinaman?" "Since there is no other means of entrance to the conservatory save through the study, Kwee must have hidden himself there at some time when his master was absent from the room." "Croxted found the communicating door closed.
Nayland Smith fixed his eyes upon the speaker. "Where did he first see this green mist?" "He says, Mr. Smith, that he thinks it came from the mummy case." "Yes; go on." "It is to his credit that he climbed into the room after seeing a thing like that. He did. He turned the body over, and Sir Lionel looked horrible. He was quite dead. Then Croxted that's the man's name went over to this curtain.
What killed the Chinaman?" "Both Miss Edmonds and Croxted found the study door locked from the inside. What killed Strozza?" retorted Smith. "You will have noted," continued the Inspector, "that the secretary is wearing Sir Lionel's dressing-gown.
Smith," he said. "Strozza, knowing Sir Lionel to be absent, locked himself in here to rifle the mummy case, for Croxted, entering by way of the window, found the key on the inside. Strozza didn't know that the Chinaman was hidden in the conservatory " "And Kwee did not dare to show himself, because he too was there for some mysterious reason of his own," interrupted Smith.
On the steps lay a dead Chinaman." "A dead Chinaman!" "A dead CHINAMAN." "Doctor seen them?" rapped Smith. "Yes; a local man. He was out of his depth, I could see. Contradicted himself three times. But there's no need for another opinion until we get the coroner's." "And Croxted?" "Croxted was taken ill, Mr. Smith, and had to be sent home in a cab." "What ails him?"
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