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"Shall we go on? " the inspector asked. It was nearly midnight and the intervening time since that dreadful twilight hour in the laboratory had been taken up with the formalities necessarily resultant upon the final tragedy. He, McCarty and Dennis were alone in Orbit's sitting-room once more, for the two other officials had returned to headquarters. As he spoke he took from his pocket the remaining pages of the diary.
"That's what Orbit wanted," McCarty replied in a subdued tone. "He's left the soul of him, such as it was, in those papers and though 'tis not a thing I'd like to let loose on the world, we know the worst of him and we ought to know the rest."