"I reckon I'll go on up." "No!" cried Dunwody suddenly, and sprang to the foot of the stair.
"Please!--that is,--" he hesitated.

"If you will kindly wait a moment, I will have the servants put your room in order for you before you go up." "Oho!" cried the Honorable William.

"Don't want us to find out a single thing! House o' mystery, ah, ha! Doctor here, too! Tell us, anybody died here to-day ?" Doctor Jamieson answered by quietly stepping to the side of Dunwody.

Judge Clayton, without comment, joined them, and the three edged in between the exhilarated gentleman and the stairway which he sought to ascend.
"I was just saying, gentlemen," remarked Judge Clayton quietly, "that I was sure it would give us all much pleasure to take a stroll around these beautiful grounds with Colonel Dunwody." He looked Dunwody calmly in the eye, and the latter knew he had a friend.

He knew perfectly well that Judge Clayton did not for an instant suppose that these articles ever had belonged to any servant.