But the occasion was too serious and his part in it too pronounced for him to take any pleasure in this misadventure.

In the prosecution of so daring a scheme for locating witnesses if not of discovering the actual user of the bow, it would not do to fail.

He _must_ find the man he sought.

If the Curator--but one glance into the room where that gentleman stood amid a litter of prints satisfied him that Sweetwater was right as to the impossibility of getting any information from this quarter.

Nor could he hope, remembering what he had himself seen, that he would succeed any better with the last person now remaining on this floor--the young man busy with the coins in No.