But, as he replaced it impassively in its envelope without volunteering any explanation, I felt that I could not question him directly.
Nevertheless, I ventured to approach the subject in an indirect manner.
"Did you get any information from those Darmstadt people ?" I asked.
"Schnitzler?
Yes.

I learned, through the medium of an official acquaintance, that Dr.H.Weiss was a stranger to them; that they knew nothing about him excepting that he had ordered from them, and been supplied with, a hundred grammes of pure hydrochlorate of morphine." "All at once ?" "No.

In separate parcels of twenty-five grammes each." "Is that all you know about Weiss ?" "It is all that I actually know; but it is not all that I suspect--on very substantial grounds.

By the way, what did you think of the coachman ?" "I don't know that I thought very much about him.

Why ?" "You never suspected that he and Weiss were one and the same person ?" "No.