s the man I saw
leaning against the wall at the foot of the alcove a few minutes before I
passed into the supper-room."
I stopped with a gasphardly able to meet the stern and forbidding
look with which the inspector sought to restrain what he evidently
considered the senseless ravings of a child. But I had come there to speak
and I hastily proceeded before the rebuke thus expressed could formulate
itself into words.
I have some excuse for a declaration so monstrous. Perhaps I am the
only person who can satisfy you in regard to a certain fact about which
you have expressed some curiosity. Inspectorhave you ever solved the
mystery of the two broken coffee-cups found amongst the debris at Mrs.
Fairbrother's feet? It did not come out in the inquestI noticed.
The Woman in the Alcove
78
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Possibly not. But I can tell you this: When I reached the supper-room
door that evening I looked back andprovidentially or otherwise--only the
future can determine that--detected Mr. Grey in the act of lifting two cups
from a tray left by some waiter on a table standing just outside the
reception-room door. I did not see where he carried them; I onlyyilai:
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