Mark that point.

It is of importance.

Good has come out of evil, however, for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them.

I think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all that he has suffered." "But if he is innocent, who has done it ?" "Ah! who?
I would call your attention very particularly to two points.

One is that the murdered man had an appointment with someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would return.