As Far As We Saw
The same sergeant who said nobody stole it now tells Betteredge, in plain English, that Miss Rachel has stolen her own Diamond. The steward's body answers before his mind will. A new fact does not replace the old voice. It collides with it. Readers who trusted Cuff's roses and Betteredge's pipe have to keep both men in the room and watch which one is missing a corridor.
Key Insight
A later narrator does not cancel an earlier one. The skill is holding the contradiction long enough to see which room each man was never allowed to enter.
“Miss Rachel has stolen her own Diamond? Yes, that is what I mean to tell you, in so many words.”Full analysis
