“Is it possible to enter this building unperceived?” the Coroner resumed.
“I should have said not,” replied McGorry; “but now everything seems possible.” Even the Coroner had to smile at his despondent tone.
“The front door is opened at seven o’clock and closed at eleven, unless there’s something special going on,” McGorry continued, “and during those hours there are always one or two boys in the hall, and often three. After eleven the watchman opens the front door and takes the people up in the elevaytor. No one but meself has the key to this outside door.”
“Does the watchman never leave the front hall except to take people up in the elevator?”
“Well, I don’t say niver, sor, but he’s niver far off.”
“Then I gather that it would be just possible for a person to get out of this house unperceived between eleven P.M. and seven A.M., but impossible, or nearly so, for him to enter?”
“Yes, that’s so, that’s what I think, sor.”
“Well, what about the back door?” I asked.
“Well, the back door is opened at six and closed at tin,” replied McGorry.