You yourself know how he sent that criminal to my flat in order to create evidence against me." He nodded.
"Did you ever meet Stay before ?" he asked.
She shook her head.
"I think I have heard of him," she said.

"I know that Mr.Lyne was interested in a criminal, and that this criminal worshipped him.

Once Mr.
Lyne brought him to the Stores and wanted to give him a job but the man would not accept it.

Mr.Lyne once told me that Sam Stay would do anything in the world for him." "Stay thinks you committed the murder," said Tarling bluntly.

"Lyne has evidently told stories about you and your hatred for him, and I really think that Stay would have been more dangerous to you than the police, only fortunately the little crook has gone off his head." She looked at him in astonishment.
"Mad ?" she asked.