He refuses point-blank," answered the detective.

"But my own idea is that the affair has a very close connection with the two mysteries of the wood." "The first mystery--that of the man--proves to be a double mystery," I said.
"How?
Explain it." "Well, the waiter Olinto Santini is alive and well in London." "What!" he gasped, starting up.

"Then he is not the person you identified him to be ?" "No.

But he was masquerading as Santini--made up to resemble him, I mean, even to the mole upon his face." "But you identified him positively ?" "When a person is dead it is very easy to mistake countenances.

Death alters the countenance so very much." "That's true," he said reflectively.