He was a member of the Baldwin, the Cavendish, and the Bagatelle card clubs.
It was shown that after dinner on the day of his death he had played a rubber of whist at the latter club.
He had also played there in the afternoon.
The evidence of those who had played with him - Mr. Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Moran - showed that the game was whist, and that there was a fairly equal fall of the cards.
Adair might have lost five pounds, but not more.
His fortune was a considerable one, and such a loss could not in any way affect him.
He had played nearly every day at one club or other, but he was a cautious player, and usually rose a winner.
It came out in evidence that in partnership with Colonel Moran he had actually won as much as four hundred and twenty pounds in a sitting some weeks before from Godfrey Milner and Lord Balmoral.
So much for his recent history, as it came out at the inquest.
On the evening of the crime he returned from the club exactly at ten.