CHAPTER III Facts and deductions

Turning my attention back into the room where I was, I found the corner, consulting a memorandum,

through a very impressive pair of gold eyeglasses.

Is the bottler here, he asked?

Immediately there is a stir among the group of servants in the corner, and an intelligent

looking, though somewhat pompous, Irishman, stepped up from their midst and confronted

the jury.

Ah, thought I to myself, as Mike Lanson countered his precise whiskers, steady eye, and respectfully

attentive, though by no means humble, expression, here is the model servant who is likely to

prove a model witness, and I was not mistaken.

Thomas, the bottler, was in all respects one in a thousand, and he knew it.

The corner, upon whom, as upon all others in the room, he seemed to have made the like

favorable impression, proceeded without hesitation to interrogate him.

Your name, I am told, is Thomas Dockerty, yes, sir?

Well, Thomas, how long have you been employed in your present situation?

It must be a matter of two years now, sir.

You were the person who first discovered the body of Mr. Levinworth.

Yes, sir, I and Mr. Harwell.

And who is Mr. Harwell?

Mr. Harwell is Mr. Levinworth's private secretary, sir, the one who did his writing.

Very good.

Now, at what time of the day or night did you make this discovery?

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