Here he paused a minute to give another look at the man outstretched at his feet, and I heard him say: "'It is Amos's son, not Amos! Is it fatality, or did he plan this meeting, thinking----' "But here he caught sight of my figure in the antechamber beyond, and resuming in an instant his former debonair manner, he bowed very low and opened his lips as if about to ask a question.

But he evidently thought better of it, for he strode by me and made his way to the front door without a word.

Being an intruder myself, I did not like to stop him.
But I am sorry now for the consideration I showed him; for just before he stepped out, his emotion--the special character of which, I own to you, I find impossible to understand--culminated in a burst of raucous laughter which added the final horror to this amazing adventure.

Then he went out, and in the last glimpse I had of him before the door shut he wore the same look of easy self-satisfaction with which he had entered this place of death some fifteen minutes before." "Remarkable! Some secret history there! That man must be found.

He can throw light upon Mr.Adams's past.