This will give you the outlines of the story.

Next, I will send you to--to my old customer, who can tell you my son-in-law's real name.

And then I will describe his coat-of-arms.

My memory was never so clear and good as I feel it to-day.

Strange that last night I seemed, for the moment, to forget everything! Ha, ha! Ridiculous, wasn't it?
I suppose--But there is no accounting for these queer things.