«I'll tell you afterwards. Go on.»
«He was very long-sighted — oddly long-sighted for a man in the prime of life; the glasses were like a very old man's. By the way, they had a very beautiful and remarkable chain of flat links chased with a pattern. It struck me he might be traced through it.»
«I've just put an advertisement in the Times about it,» said Lord Peter. «Go on.»
«He had had the glasses some time — they had been mended twice.»
«Beautiful, Parker, beautiful. Did you realize the importance of that?»
«Not specially, I'm afraid — why?»
«Never mind — go on.»
«He was probably a sullen, ill-tempered man — his nails were filed down to the quick as though he habitually bit them, and his fingers were bitten as well. He smoked quantities of cigarettes without a holder. He was particular about his personal appearance.»
«Did you examine the room at all? I didn't get a chance.»
«I couldn't find much in the way of footprints. Sugg amp; Co. had tramped all over the place, to say nothing of little Thipps and the maid, but I noticed a very indefinite patch just behind the head of the bath, as though something damp might have stood there. You could hardly call it a print.»