to it carefully and reached it when the other entered the room.
The man stood still, throwing his light in every direction to get his bearings. Evidently either he had overlooked the use of the electric lights in the room or had decided not to use them, for he made no apparent search for the switch. He seemed instead—as well as Hereford could visualize to himself the manner of the vague movements behind the little white spot of light—to be looking about the room as one entirely strange to it, but familiar with it from the descriptions. Hereford saw the man turn his light upon this object and that, as if to identify them. So he located the place where the box had stood, stooped and seemed to examine whether the fire had left any of the drops of blood leading to the blank wall,
