As to Mrs.St.Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or dreaming.

He was removed, loudly protesting, to the police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue.
"And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they had feared to find.

It was Neville St.Clair's coat, and not Neville St.Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded.

And what do you think they found in the pockets ?" "I cannot imagine." "No, I don't think you would guess.

Every pocket stuffed with pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies.