I thought it must have been either Mr.Steele or Nixon, the butler, but each denied it.

There was no one else in this part of the house." "Mrs.Packard is very sensitive just now," he remarked.

Then as he turned away toward the library door: "I will throw myself on a lounge.

I have but an hour or two before me, as I have my preparations to make for leaving town on the early morning train.

I shall have some final instructions to give you.".