It is very stupid of me, I admit, but I have not the faintest notion." "Does it make the finding of Okasaki more important ?" "To a certain extent.

We want to have everything explained.

At present we have so little of what I regard as really definite evidence." "May I ask what that little is ?" "Sir Alan Hume-Frazer was murdered with a knife produced by a man like David Hume, whom 'Rabbit Jack' saw standing beneath the yews.

Not much, eh ?" Winter shook his head dubiously.
"If Sir Alan were shot instead of stabbed," went on the barrister, "the first thing you would endeavour to determine would be the calibre and nature of the bullet.

Why not be equally particular about the knife ?" "But this weapon has been for fifty years in Glen Tochan.