By renewing the lease on the shop and keeping it vacant-supposedly waiting for Wynant to return-he can make sure-reasonably sure-that nobody will discover the grave, and if it is accidentally discovered, then fat Mr. D. W. Q.-by that time Wynant's bones would be pretty bare and you can't tell whether a man was thin or fat by his skeleton-was murdered by Wynant, which explains why Wynant has made himself scarce.
Horrela, segurua da, edo nahiko segurua behintzat, inork ez duela hilobia aurkituko, eta aurkituko balute ere, orduan D.W.Q. jaun lodia (ordurako Wynant hezur hutsa litzateke ia, eta hezurrengatik ez dago esaterik inor lodia ala mehea den) Wynantek hila izango zen eta horrela ulertuko zen Wynanten desagertzea.