"I cannot swear I did."

"Do you think you did?"

"Yes, I think I did. To tell the whole: I remember hearing, just
as I was falling into a doze, a rustle and a footstep in the hall; but
it made no impression upon me, and I dropped asleep."

"Well?"

"Some time later I woke, woke suddenly, as if something had
startled me, but what, a noise or move, I cannot say. I remember rising
up in my bed and looking around, but hearing nothing further, soon
yielded to the drowsiness which possessed me and fell into a deep
sleep. I did not wake again till morning."

Here requested to relate how and when he became acquainted with the
fact of the murder, he substantiated, in all particulars, the account
of the matter already given by the butler; which subject being
exhausted, the coroner went on to ask if he had noted the condition of
the library table after the body had been removed.

"Somewhat; yes, sir."

"What was on it?"

"The usual properties, sir, books, paper, a pen with the ink dried
on it, besides the decanter and the wineglass from which he drank the
night before."