What of it ?" "I have just come from the police-station," said Bryce.

"Coates and Everest have carried out an autopsy this afternoon.

Mitchington told me the result." "Well ?" demanded Ransford, with no attempt to conceal his impatience.
"And what then ?" "Collishaw was poisoned," replied Bryce, watching Ransford with a closeness which Mary did not fail to observe.

"H.C.N.

No doubt at all about it." "Well--and what then ?" asked Ransford, still more impatiently.