Mr.Corbeck was on his left, with Doctor Winchester on the other side.

After a few seconds of silence Mr.
Trelawny said to Mr.Corbeck: "You have told Doctor Winchester all up to the present, as we arranged ?" "Yes," he answered; so Mr.Trelawny said: "And I have told Margaret, so we all know!" Then, turning to the Doctor, he asked: "And am I to take it that you, knowing all as we know it who have followed the matter for years, wish to share in the experiment which we hope to make ?" His answer was direct and uncompromising: "Certainly! Why, when this matter was fresh to me, I offered to go on with it to the end.

Now that it is of such strange interest, I would not miss it for anything which you could name.

Be quite easy in your mind, Mr.Trelawny.

I am a scientist and an investigator of phenomena.
I have no one belonging to me or dependent on me.