But beyond the door, in the hall, nothing."
"Still," interrupted Harrington, "to get back to the facts in the
case. They are perfectly in accord either with my theory of the
cigar or the Record's of spontaneous combustion. How do you
account for the facts?"
"I suppose you refer to the charred head, the burned neck, the
upper chest cavity, while the arms and legs were untouched?"
"Yes, and then the body was found in the midst of combustible
furniture that was not touched. It seems to me that even the
spontaneous-combustion theory has considerable support in spite
of this very interesting circumstantial evidence about
blood-spots. Next to my own theory, the combustion theory seems
most in harmony with the facts."
"If you will go over in your mind all the points proved to have
been discovered--not the added points in the Record story--I
think you will agree with me that mine is a more logical
interpretation than spontaneous combustion," reasoned Craig.
"Hear me out and you will see that the facts are more in harmony
with my less fanciful explanation. No, someone struck Lewis
Langley down either in passion or in cold blood, and then, seeing
what he had done, made a desperate effort to destroy the evidence
of violence. Consider my next discovery."
Kennedy placed the five glasses which I had carefully sealed and
labelled on the table before us.
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