Holmes.
He was looking very bad -- quite ghastly."
"You stayed here when your master left?"
"Only for a minute or so. Then I locked the door and went
to my room."
"Whom do you suspect?"
"Oh, I would not venture to say, sir. I don't believe there
is any gentleman in this University who is capable of profiting
by such an action. No, sir, I'll not believe it."
"Thank you; that will do," said Holmes. "Oh, one more word.
You have not mentioned to any of the three gentlemen whom you
attend that anything is amiss?"
"No, sir; not a word."
"You haven't seen any of them?"
"No, sir."
"Very good. Now, Mr. Soames, we will take a walk in the
quadrangle, if you please."
Three yellow squares of light shone above us in the gathering
gloom."
"Your three birds are all in their nests," said Holmes, looking up.
"Halloa! What's that? One of them seems restless enough."
It was the Indian, whose dark silhouette appeared suddenly
upon his blind. He was pacing swiftly up and down his room.
"I should like to have a peep at each of them," said Holmes.
"Is it possible?"
"No difficulty in the world," Soames answered.
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