"To be perfectly interesting the affair certainly ought to present something more definite in the shape of a clue.

You see, providing we accept the evidence of Wrayson and the cabman, and I suppose," he added, laying his hand affectionately upon Wrayson's shoulder, "we must, the actual murderer is a person absolutely unseen or unheard of by any one.

If you are all really interested we will discuss it again in a week's time after the adjourned inquest." "I, for one, shall look forward to it," Heneage remarked, glancing across towards Wrayson.

"What about a pool ?" "I'm on," Wrayson declared, rising a little abruptly.
"And I," Mason assented.
"And I can't," the Colonel said regretfully.

"I must go down to Balham and see poor Carlo Mallini I hear he's very queer." The Colonel loved pool, and he hated a sick-room.