Chapter 20

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌‌​‌​⁠Colwyn spent a couple of hours that night reading the depositions he had obtained from Merrington, and next morning he studied them afresh with a concentration which the incessant hum of London traffic outside was powerless to disturb. He was well aware that a report was a poor substitute for original impressions, but in the typewritten document before him lay the facts of the Heredith case so far