Part 2, Thursday Summary

Martyn awakes very early in the morning from a dream in which he is being interrogated by Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse. He takes a long bath and has a quiet breakfast, the whole while contemplating what he can do with Dad's body. He then comments in narration on how a situation can change in a moment - in this case, the arrival of that morning's mail.

Going through the post, Martyn discovers a letter from a lawyer revealing that recently, Dad had been told he had inherited sixty thousand dollars, and that the day before, the money had been deposited into his checking account. Noting that Dad had never told him, and realizing that he (Dad) probably never intended to, Martyn searches his dad's room. He finds several important things - the correspondence between Dad and the lawyer (from which...