nd the police would come, and I must have lost my head. Before I knew
what had happened I had pulled the gun out of my pocket and fired
point-blank. I heard a sound like a thud of the body falling. The pistol
was still in my hand, and my first act was to get rid of it. I felt a
basket by my legs in the darkness. It was full of cotton and wool and
stuff and I pushed the pistol down to the bottom and then groped across
the room and switched on the lights.

"As I did so, I heard the key turn in the lock again. I gave one glance
at the body which had fallen on its face and then I dived for the alcove.

"The man who came in was Milburgh. His back was to me. As he turned the
body over I could not see its face. I saw him take something out of the
drawer and bind it round the chest and I saw him strip off the coat and
vest, but not until he had gone out and I came from the recess, did I
realise that the man I had killed was dear Mr. Lyne.

"I think I must have gone raving mad with grief. I don't know what I did.
All I thought of was that there must be some chance and he wasn't dead at
all and he must be got away to a hospital. We had discussed the plan of
going into the flat and he had told me how he would bring his car to the
back. I rushed out of the flat, going through the back way. Sure enough
there was the car waiting and nobody was about.

"I came back to the bedroom and lifted him in my arms and carried him
back to the car, propping him up in the seat. Then I went back and got
his coat and vest and threw them on to the seat by him. I found his boots
were also in the car and then for the first time I noticed that he had
slippers on his feet.

"I have been a taxi-driver so I know how to handle a car and in a few
minutes I was going along the Edgware Road, on my way to St. George's
Hospital. I turned in through the park because I didn't want people to
see me, and it was when I had got into a part where nobody was about that
I stopped the car to have another look at him. I realised that he was
quite dead.

"I sat in that car with him for the best part of two hours, crying as I
never have cried, then after a while I roused myself and carried him out
and laid him on the sidewalk, some distance from the car. I had enough
sense to know that if he were found dead in my company it would go very
badly with me, but I hated leaving him and after I had folded his arms I
sat by him for another hour or two.

"He seemed so cold an