I want you to tell us all that took place between these gentlemen while you were in the room.

You were there all through the dinner, I suppose ?" "Yes, sir, but I didn't follow all of the conversation because of my infirmity." He touched his ears as he spoke.

"I gathered some remarks of Mr.Glenthorpe's, because he told me to stand opposite him and watch his lips for orders, but I didn't get much of what the young gentleman said, because I was standing behind his chair most of the time so as to see Mr.Glenthorpe's lips better." "Well, tell us all you did gather of the conversation, and everything you saw." "I beg your pardon, sir"-- the interruption came from Superintendent Galloway--"but would it not be advisable to get from the waiter first something of what passed between him and Ronald when Ronald came to the inn last night?
The waiter was the first to see him, Benson says." "Quite right.

I had forgotten.

Tell us, Charles, what passed when Ronald first came to the inn in the afternoon." "It was between five and six o'clock, sir, when the young gentleman came to the front door and asked for the landlord.