"At the same time nothing that you told him throws any light at all upon the circumstances which led to the poor fellow's death." "That," Mr.Coulson declared, "is not my fault.

What I don't know I can't tell you." "You were acquainted with Mr.Fynes some years ago ?" the Inspector asked.

"Can you tell me what business he was in then ?" "Same as now, for anything I know," Mr.Coulson answered.

"He was a clerk in one of the Government offices at Washington." "Government offices," Inspector Jacks repeated.

"Have you any idea what department ?" Mr.Coulson was not sure.
"It may have been the Excise Office," he remarked thoughtfully.