Of course, Mr.Ross, all this, too, is between you and me." "Quite so! You may depend on my silence!" I said; and he went away to keep a close eye on the Egyptologist.
It seemed as though all my painful experiences were to go in pairs, and that the sequence of the previous day was to be repeated; for before long I had another private visit from Doctor Winchester who had now paid his nightly visit to his patient and was on his way home.

He took the seat which I proffered and began at once: "This is a strange affair altogether.

Miss Trelawny has just been telling me about the stolen lamps, and of the finding of them in the Napoleon cabinet.

It would seem to be another complication of the mystery; and yet, do you know, it is a relief to me.

I have exhausted all human and natural possibilities of the case, and am beginning to fall back on superhuman and supernatural possibilities.