IT WAS half past ten when d**k and the lawyer went upstairs to their rooms, and after he had seen Mr Havelock safely in his suite and had heard the key turned, he went into his own apartment, shut and locked the door, and lit a candle.
He waited ten minutes and then, noiselessly unlocking the door, he stepped out into the corridor. The detective on duty saluted him silently as he took out the key and relocked the door from the outside. Then he passed down the stairs and into the hall, where Sneed was waiting for him. Without a word, d**k unfastened the door of the room in which Sybil had seen the strange apparition, and they went in together.
The blinds here had been drawn by the caretaker; one of these, at the farther end of the room, d**k raised and pulled back the curtain.
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