But there was no sign of them.

Then we understood that they could hear nothing, and that all that had happened was known only to ourselves.
"It was at that instant that the idea came to me.

I was fairly dazzled by the brilliance of it.

The man's sleeve had slipped up and there was the branded mark of the lodge upon his forearm.

See here!" The man whom we had known as Douglas turned up his own coat and cuff to show a brown triangle within a circle exactly like that which we had seen upon the dead man.
"It was the sight of that which started me on it.