At what time? At the moment when it
was most easy for him to do so; at the moment when it became most
explainable--so completely explainable that there can be no other
explanation. Let us go over the moments which followed after the
crime had been committed. There was the first moment, when Monsieur
Stangerson and Daddy Jacques were close to the door, ready to bar
the way. There was the second moment, during which Daddy Jacques
was absent and Monsieur Stangerson was left alone before the door.
There was a third moment, when Monsieur Stangerson was joined by
the concierge. There was a fourth moment, during which Monsieur
Stangerson, the concierge and his wife and Daddy Jacques were before
the door. There was a fifth moment, during which the door was burst
open and The Yellow Room entered. The moment at which the flight is
explainable is the very moment when there was the least number of
persons before the door. There was one moment when there was but
one person,--Monsieur Stangerson. Unless a complicity of silence
on the part of Daddy Jacques is admitted--in which I do not believe
--the door was opened in the presence of Monsieur Stangerson alone
and the man escaped.
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