“Did you try to stop me when I got out?”
“No.”
“Why?” asked Tempest, with a sneer that made us all contrast his broad shoulders with the master’s slouch.
“I decided to deal with the matter to-day.”
“How did you see what I had done to the door in the dark?”
“I saw by the light of a match.”
“You say it was two minutes after I left that the explosion took place, and immediately after you left?”
“That’s what I said.”
“And you were striking matches during the interval?”
“Yes.”