A LEAP IN THE DARK With the morning Theydon brought a mature and impartial judgment to bear on his perplexities.

The average man, if asked to form an opinion on any difficult point, will probably arrive at a saner decision during the first pipe after breakfast than at any other given hour of the day.
Excellent physiological reasons account for this truism.

The sound mind in a sound body is then working under the most favorable conditions.
It is free from the strain of affairs.

The cold, clear morning light divests problems of the undue importance, or, it may be, the glamour of novelty, which they possessed overnight.

At any rate, Frank Theydon, clenching a pipe between his teeth, and gazing thoughtfully through an open window at the trees in Innesmore Gardens, reviewed yesterday's happenings calmly and critically, and arrived at the settled conviction that his proper course was to visit Scotland Yard and make known to the authorities the one vital fact he had withheld from their ken thus far.
It was not for him to assess the significance of Mr.Forbes's desire to remain in the background.