CHAPTER XXXIIWhen the door had shut a little abruptly Colonel Bostock looked across the table at Vyner and said,
‘What do you make of that?’
‘Well, sir, the bother about the cylinder is there are too many prints on it—too many—too faint except for Mr Wray’s own. Same with the papers inside. Mr Wray says Mr Paradine told him that he and Mr Moffat and Mr Ambrose had what he called a session over them. I take that to mean they had them out and passed them round. We haven’t got Mr Moffat’s fingerprints to compare, but the other two are there all over the place, and another lot which are pretty sure to be his. The outside of the cylinder is very confused indeed—just a jumble, as you might say, which is what you’d expect with that amount of surface and all those people handling it. There’s one
