"As you are here, you had better come into this room again, and shut the door behind you.

I have some questions I want to put to you." Thalassa followed Barrant into the room and stood by the table, the rays of the swinging-lamp throwing his brown face into sharp outline.

"What do you want to know ?" he asked.
"I want you to tell me everything that happened in this house on the night your master was found dead." "There's not much to tell," began Thalassa slowly.

"When it happened I was down in the cellar, breaking some coal.

I heered my wife call out to me from the kitchen.