four in the morning
The room in which she lay was locked ; the door leading into Mr. Macallan 's room being secured , as well as the door leading into the corridor . The keys had been taken away by Mr. Gale . Two of the men-servants were posted outside the bedroom to keep watch . They were to be relieved at four in the morning -- that was all they could tell me . '' There was my lost association with the corridor ! There was what I ought to have remembered when Miserrimus Dexter was telling me of his visit to the dead ! How had he got into the bedroom -- the doors being locked , and the keys being taken away by Mr. Gale ?