I wished you to draw your own inferences, without any aid from me.

The police did find traces of a second horse and cutter having passed through the club-house grounds.

It was snowing hard, and these traces were speedily obliterated, but Hexford and Clarke saw them in time to satisfy themselves that they extended from the northern clump of trees to the upper gateway where they took the direction of the Hill." "That is not all.

A grip-sack, packed for travelling, was in Mr.
Ranelagh's cutter, showing that his story of an intended journey was not without some foundation." "Yes.

We have retained that grip-sack.