"It's all different," he said. "For one thing, you made a devil
of a noise and Cayley didn't."
"Perhaps you weren't listening when Cayley went in?"
"I wasn't. But I should have heard him if I could have heard
him, and I should have remembered afterwards."
"Perhaps Cayley shut the door after him."
"Wait!"
He pressed his hand over his eyes and thought. It wasn't
anything which he had heard, but something which he had seen. He
tried desperately hard to see it again .... He saw Cayley getting
up, opening the door from the office, leaving it open and walking
into the passage, turning to the door on the right, opening it,
going in, and then--What did his eyes see after that? If they
would only tell him again!
Suddenly he jumped up, his face alight. "Bill, I've got it!" he
cried.
"What?"
"The shadow on the wall! I was looking at the shadow on the
wall. Oh, ass, and ten times ass!"
Bill looked uncomprehendingly at him. Antony took his arm and
pointed to the wall of the passage.
"Look at the sunlight on it," he said.
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