But what do you mean by strange ?" The Detective paused, as if choosing his words to begin; and then said deliberately: "You see, I am not one who believes in magic and such things.

I am for facts all the time; and I always find in the long-run that there is a reason and a cause for everything.

This new gentleman says these things were stolen out of his room in the hotel.

The lamps, I take it from some things he has said, really belong to Mr.Trelawny.

His daughter, the lady of the house, having left the room she usually occupies, sleeps that night on the ground floor.