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Lance sat up long and late, pondering over all that Burlinson had done and said. From the mystic point of view the more he thought over it the more puzzled he was. And yet Burlinson had most emphatically declared that Sir George had not committed suicide.
"That man was dead before the razor touched him," Burlinson had said, as he stood with one foot in the stirrup at parting. "I am confirmed in that statement by two of the greatest authorities in the world. And as to a man committing suicide by administering chloroform to himself, why, the thing is too absurd. At the first touch of unconsciousness the will power naturally becomes dormant. A man would fall forward and just lie there till he came round again. Sir George was taken by surprise from behind, his heart was not equal to the strain and he died. We are on the track, and we are going to get to the root of the mystery yet."