With a full sense of his years weighing upon him as never before, he sighed, but continued with little change of tone: "In the first day or two of keen surprise following an event of so many complicated mysteries, I drew up in my own mind a list of questions which I felt should be properly answered before I would consider it my duty to submit to you a report to the disadvantage of any one suspect.

This was Question One: "'Whose was the hand to bring up into the museum gallery the bow recognized by Correy as the one which had been lying by for an indefinite length of time in the cellar ?' "Not till yesterday did I get any really definite answer to this.

Correy would not talk; nor would the Curator; and I dared not press either of them beyond a certain point, for equally with yourself, I felt it most undesirable to allow anyone to suspect the nature of my theory or whom it especially involved.
"The Curator had nothing to hide on this or any other point connected with the tragedy.

But it was different with Correy.

He had some very strong ideas about that visit to the cellar--only he would not acknowledge them.