Holmes was delighted.
'We're beginning to get a lot of information,' he said.
'I decided to find out who was drawing these pictures,'
^ went on Hilton Cubitt. 'So the next night, I took my gun and sat
beside a window which looks out onto the garden.
'At about two o'clock in the morning, my wife came into the
room. She was wearing her night clothes. She asked me to come
to bed. But I refused.
' "No, Elsie," I said. "I want to see who is drawing these
pictures."
'Suddenly I saw Elsie's face turn very white in the moonlight.
She was looking out of the window. I looked out of the window,
too. I saw something moving near the toolhouse. A dark figure
came slowly round the comer of the toolhouse and stopped beside
the door.
'Immediately, I picked up my gun. I wanted to run out of the
house, but my wife caught me in her arms and held me back. By
the time I got outside, the man was gone.
'On the toolhouse door was the same drawing I copied before: