That was about all I heard, sir, for shortly afterwards Mr.Glenthorpe told me to clear away the things, which took me several trips downstairs, because, not having the full use of my right hand, I have to use a small tray.

It was not till this morning, when I was cleaning the cutlery, that I noticed that one of the knives I had taken upstairs the night before was missing.

I think that is all, sir." The silence which followed, broken only by the rapid travelling of Superintendent Galloway's pen across the paper, revealed how intently the fat man's auditors had followed his whispered recital of the events before the murder.

It was Superintendent Galloway who, putting down his fountain pen, asked the waiter to describe the knife he had missed.
"It was a small, white-handled knife, sir--not one of the dinner knives, but one of the smaller ones." "Are you sure it was one of the knives you took upstairs last night ?" "Quite sure, sir.

We are very short of good cutlery, and I picked out this knife to put by the young gentleman's plate because it was a very good one.