l condition. Marlowe's
shoes (of which I examined several pairs) were roughly about one
shoemaker's size longer and broader than Manderson's.

(3.) In the afternoon of the first day of my investigation, after
arriving at the results already detailed, I sent a telegram to a
personal friend, a Fellow of a college at Oxford, whom I knew to be
interested in theatrical matters, in these terms:

PLEASE WIRE JOHN MARLOWE'S RECORD IN CONNECTION WITH ACTING AT OXFORD
SOME TIME PAST DECADE VERY URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.

My friend replied in the following telegram, which reached me next
morning (the morning of the inquest):

MARLOWE WAS MEMBER O.U.D.S FOR THREE YEARS AND PRESIDENT 19-PLAYED
BARDOLPH CLEON AND MERCUTIO EXCELLED IN CHARACTER ACTING AND IMITATIONS
IN GREAT DEMAND AT SMOKERS WAS HERO OF SOME HISTORIC HOAXES.

I had been led to send the telegram which brought this very helpful
answer by seeing on the mantel-shelf in Marlowe's bedroom a photograph
of himself and two others in the costume of Falstaff's three followers,
with an inscription from The Merry Wives, and by noting that it bore the
imprint of an Oxford firm of photographers.

(4.) During his connection with Manderson, Marlowe had lived as one
of the family. No other person, apart from the servants, had his
opportunities for knowing the domestic life of the Mandersons in detail.

(5.) I ascertained beyond doubt that Marlowe arrived at a hotel in
Southampton on the Monday morning at 6.30, and there proceeded to carry
out the commission which, according to his story, and according to the
statement made to Mrs Manderson in the bedroom by the false Manderson,
had been entrusted to him by his employer. He had then returned in the
car to Marlstone, where he had shown great amazement and horror at the
news of the murder.

These, I say, are the relevant facts about Marlowe. We must now examine
fact number 5 (as set out above) in connection with conclusion number 5
about the false Manderson.

I would first draw attention to one important fact. The only person who
professed to have heard Manderson mention Southampton at all before he
started in the car was Marlowe. His story--confirmed to some extent by
what the butler overheard--was that the journey was all arranged in a
private talk before they set out, and he could not say, when I put the
question to him, why Manderson should have concealed his intentions by
giving out that he was going with Marlowe for a moon