After a strained moment of silence, he leaned across and said, very quietly, but watching the effect of each word upon the face of him he had sent for, "Alan, in a locked room at the top of this house, a room to which nobody but myself has access, a dead man is seated at a table.
Haserako momentu urduri baten ondoren, aurrera ekin zion, oso-oso poliki, esandako hitz bakoitzak etortzeko eskatu zion haren aurpegian zeukan eraginari begiratuz. -Alan, etxe honen gaikaldean, giltzapetutako gela batean, nik ezik beste inork sarrerarik ez duen gela batean, hildako gizon bat dago, mahai batera eserita.