Page:The Millbank Case - 1905 - Eldridge.djvu/25

 bell as a matter of course, not even taking with him a light. But, if he was seated at his desk, as seemed clearly the case, the man must have seen him as he came up the drive and might easily have shot him through the window. Why, then, had he called him to the door? The body had not been disturbed after it fell; the watch was in the fob, and money in the pocket. Murder was evidently the murderer's purpose; yet he had summoned his victim, when clearly he had him in his power without so doing.