Originally posted by Abby Normal
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In response to a point you make:
The feces could well have been transferred from his hands to the apron. The colon was cut, and he may easily have soiled himself as a result of that, afterwards realizing he needed to wipe his hands.
However, if he was not pressed for time at the point of this realization, then why would he bring a rag along instead of just doing the business there and then? He could have wiped his hands on the apron without taking it along with him.
This, however, does not apply if he cut himself - then he would need to bandage his hand, and that bandage needed to leave the square with him. It also needed to stay on until he had stopped bleeding.
My conviction is that he finished by cutting himself that apron piece, and I think that would show that he was not pressed for time. But let´s, for arguments sake, say that he instead realized before he set about cutting that he would need a rag afterwards, and thus cut the rag early on. Then he is startled by the sound of approaching steps, jumps to his feet, grabs the rag and sets off out through St James passage.
Would he spend a full five minutes wiping his hands after this? Or would he give the hands a quick rubbing, and then throw away the rag as he approached Houndsditch? That´s what I think he would have done.
Unless, that is, he had cut himself!
All the best,
Fisherman
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