That tapestry was pulled aside not merely for the purpose of flinging in the bow, but to let the flinger pass through the door at its back down to the Curator's office and so out into the court." "Whew! And who...." "If this fact had been made known to me sooner, you would have had a different day's work; not getting it until late this afternoon, we have perhaps wasted some valuable hours.

But we won't fret about that.

Mrs.
Taylor being no better, we are likely to have all the time we want for substantiating my idea.

It cannot take long if we succeed either in tracing the Duclos woman or in drawing the net I am quietly manufacturing, so closely about--well, I've decided to call him X--that it will hold against all opposition.

I have hopes of finding the woman, but great doubts as to the efficacy of the net I have mentioned; it will have to be so wide and deep, and so absolutely without a single weak strand." Sweetwater sat astonished, and what was more, silent--he who had a word for everything.