As the Lieutenant washes his hands, literally and figuratively, he mentions: "I had a call from upstairs.Grabbing one of Spaulding""s hand-guns, the Professor akes aim at everything and everybody in the lobby, clearing the place quickly.He describes the massive, grotesquely magnificent, Italianate home.He compares it to Miss Havishim in Dickens"" novelGreat Expectations:It was a great big white elephant of a place, the kind crazy movie people built in the crazy 20s.After witnessing Teddy""s digging of a body-sized hole ("just he right size") in the basement (in Panama), Jonathan and the doctor plan to bring their corpse into the house later that night.