No echo follows confidences uttered in this room." "I know that; but for the present perhaps it will be best for me to follow your lead, and when I have to speak of a certain person, say X as you do.

X, Mr.Gryce, is the man who for reasons we do not yet understand brought up the discarded bow from the cellar and stored it somewhere within reach on the floor above.

X is also the man who for the same unknown reason robbed the quiver hanging in the southern gallery of one of its arrows and kept the same on hand or in hiding, till he could mate it with the bow.

My dreams showed me this picture: "A man with a predominating interest in sport, but otherwise active in business, correct in his dealings and respectable in private life, sees and frequently handles weapons of ancient and modern make which rouse his interest and awaken the longing, common to such men, to test his skill in their use.

Sometimes it is a sword, which he twirls vigorously in sly corners.