"Somebody's been in to say there's been an accident to a gentleman, a stranger--I hope it isn't one of the two we've got in the house ?" "I should say it is, ma'am," answered the inspector.

"He was seen outside here last night by one of our men, anyway." The landlady uttered an expression of distress, and opening a side-door, motioned them to step into her parlour.
"Which of them is it ?" she asked anxiously.

"There's two--came together last night, they did--a tall one and a short one.

Dear, dear me!--is it a bad accident, now, inspector ?" "The man's dead, ma'am," replied Mitchington grimly.

"And we want to know who he is.