He heard all about Scudder, and the milkman, and the note-book, and my doings in Galloway.

Presently he got very excited and walked up and down the hearth-rug.
'So you see,' I concluded, 'you have got here in your house the man that is wanted for the Portland Place murder.

Your duty is to send your car for the police and give me up.

I don't think I'll get very far.

There'll be an accident, and I'll have a knife in my ribs an hour or so after arrest.