"How did you come across Mr.Garratt Skinner ?" he asked.
"Barstow introduced me.

I made Barstow's acquaintance at the Criterion Bar, and he took me to Garratt Skinner's house in Hobart Place." "I see," said Mr.Jarvice.

"It was in Garratt Skinner's house that you lost your money, I suppose." "Yes, but he had no hand in it," exclaimed Walter Hine.

"He does not know how much I lost.

He would be angry if he did." A faint smile flickered across Jarvice's face.
"Quite so," he agreed, and under his deft cross-examination the whole story was unfolded.