"And written by herself.

Here is her signature which I have obtained; and here is his.
Compare them at your leisure with their initials inscribed according to the date there, sixteen years or more ago.

Now where were these two--this man and this woman--at the time just designated?
Alone, or together?
Let us see if we can find out," pursued the detective with a quiet ignoring of the effect he had produced, which revealed him as the master of a situation probably as difficult and disconcerting as the three officials hanging in manifest anxiety upon his words had ever been called upon to face.

"Mr.Roberts was in Switzerland, as his housekeeper will be obliged to admit on oath, she being an honest woman and a domestic in his mother's house at the time.

And Ermentrude Taylor! I have a witness to prove where she was also! A witness I should be glad to have you interrogate.