Also, he touched on the speech of Mrs.
Octagon, and repeated the warning he had given her.

Miles listened quietly, but made no remark till his friend finished.
"You have told me all you know ?" he asked.
"Yes.

I want you to help me.

Not that I think what I have learned has anything to do with the case." "I'm not so sure of that," said Jennings musingly, his eyes on the carpet.

"Mrs.Octagon bases her refusal to allow the marriage on the fact of the death.