"You'll be subpoenaed, you know, if he is charged with the murder." "That would, of course, be quite a different matter," said Mr.
Manley gravely.
"As to its being a murder, I've pretty well made up my mind that it was," said Mr.Flexen.
Mr.Manley looked at him gravely: "You have, have you ?" he said.

Then he added: "About that knife and the finger-prints on it, if it happens to have recorded any: I've been thinking that you may find yourself suffering from an embarrassment of riches.

I know that mine will be on it, and Lady Loudwater's, who used it to cut the leaves of a volume of poetry the day before yesterday, and Hutchings', who cut the string of a parcel of books with it yesterday, and very likely the fingerprints of Lord Loudwater.

You know how it is with a knife like that, which lies open and handy.

Every one uses it.