He persists that he did see--what he swore he saw." "He'll persist in that to his dying day," said Bryce carelessly.

"If that's all there is--" "It isn't," interrupted the inspector.

"Not by a long chalk! But Varner's is a direct affirmation--the other matter's a sort of ugly hint.

There's a man named Collishaw, a townsman, who's been employed as a mason's labourer about the Cathedral of late.

This Collishaw, it seems, was at work somewhere up in the galleries, ambulatories, or whatever they call those upper regions, on the very morning of the affair.