"He stated that he wished to show it to some one. I assented, passed on out, and never thought of it again until it recurred to me during a conversation with the detective after the murder."
"Do you know whether he returned it?"
"No. I do not know that he got it in the first place; I did not wait to see."
"Do you lock the doors when leaving your office, Doctor?"
"Only those opening into the laboratory and the front room. Except at night—after I have finally departed—the reception-room door is never fastened. It is scarcely ever closed."
"On the afternoon of November fourth, then, when you left your office at one o'clock, was the door open as usual?—the door opening from the hall into your reception-room?"
"Certainly."
At this point the inquisitive juror again shot forward with a question:
"Did Fairchild ever before ask you to lend him the dagger?"
"Not that I now recall," was the reply.