“Yes.”
“Where is your desk?”
“In that other private office,” pointing to an adjoining room into which a door gave communication a little to the right of the desk on which the body lay, and separated from the office they were in by a heavy division wall. The door was closed, but a transom above the door stood wide open, as Nick was quick to note.
He lost no time in fixing in his mind the location of this room in its connection with the other two.
It formed the L to the suite, and had no direct communication with the large or general office. There were two doors only to this third room. One connected it with the room in which the body was found and the other opened into the hall.
Therefore, to get into that room, it was necessary to enter either directly from the hall or through both the other offices.
“This is Mr. Byke’s private office, I suppose?”
“Yes.”
“And you, as his confidential clerk, have your desk in there?”
“Only in his absence; when he is at home, I occupy a desk in the large office.”