Where do you find stranger tales than in the records of every-day life?
Ah, here we are!" He searched through a large number of printed extracts.

There were comments, long reports, and not a few notes, all under the heading: "The Stowmarket Mystery." Hume was now deeply agitated; he evidently restrained his feelings by sheer force of will.
"Mr.Brett," he said, and his voice trembled a little, "surely you could not have expected my presence here this morning ?" "I no more expected you than the man in the moon," was the reply; "but I recognised you at once.

I watched your face for many hours whilst you stood in the dock.

Professional business took me to the Assizes during your second trial.

At one time I thought of offering my services." "To me ?" "No, not to you." "To whom, then ?" "To the police.