WHERE DID MARGARET GO?
In the Kennington Park Road he hailed hansom and drove home.

Winter awaited him, for Smith now admitted the detective without demur should his master be absent.
The barrister walked to a sideboard, produced a decanter of brandy, and helped himself to a stiff dose.
"Ah," he said pleasantly, "our American cousins call it a 'corpse reviver,' but a corpse could not do that, could he, Winter ?" "I know a few corpses that would like to try.

But what is up, sir?
I have not often seen you in need of stimulants." "I am most unfeignedly glad to give you the opportunity.

Winter, suppose, some time to-morrow, you were told that the body of Reginald Brett, Esq., barrister-at-law, and a well-known amateur investigator of crime, had been picked up shortly after midnight in the Kennington district, whilst the medical evidence showed that death was caused by a fractured skull, the result of a fall, there being no other marks of violence on the person, what would you have thought ?" "It all depends upon the additional facts that came to light." "I will tell them to you.

You were aware that I had quitted the hotel, because you called there ?" "Yes." "Whom did you see ?" "Mr.David.