"When did he come out?"
The man shook his head.
"I don'd know," he said.
"Do you mean that you saw no one come out?"
"No; I did see someone come out. But first I see me someone else go in."
"Ah! And who was that?"
"I don't know his name; but I had seen him often before. He is a kind of svell feller. He had a cane und plendy of style."
"And later you saw someone come out. Now, your use of the word 'someone' leads me to think that you do not know whether it was Spatola or the stranger."
"I don'd," said Berg. "I was busy then. I just heard me someone rush down the stairs, making plendy noise, und I heard that drunken Hume lift up a window, stick out his head and call some names after him. My customers laugh und think it's a joke; but I am ashamed such a disgracefulness to have around my business yet."
"If Hume called after the person who left," said Stillman, acutely, to Ashton-Kirk, "that eliminates one of the callers. It proves that Hume was still alive after the man had gone."