"Did any one come in while you were with him?"
"No. I wished him goodnight, intending to see him in the morning, and was shown out by some young man."
"Do you know to whom that note was written?"
"I have not the slightest idea. Neither do I know to what it alludes."
"Then--your theory, I presume, is--that he added that blotted concluding line after your departure? In fact, just when he was on the point of committing the rash act?"
"I do not see what else can be believed. The pen lay across the words when found, as if thrown there after writing them, and appeared to have caused the blots."
"Did he say anything to you about any appointment he had kept that afternoon?"
"Not anything."
"And now about the pistol, Mr. Greatorex. Did you see one on the table!"
"Yes."