"Her principal accuser is the man Stay.

Even he did not accuse her directly, but he hinted that she was responsible, in some way which he did not particularise, for Thornton Lyne's death.

I thought it curious that he should know anything about this girl, but I am inclined to think that Thornton Lyne made this man his confidant." "What about the man ?" asked Tarling.

"Can he account for his movements last night and early this morning ?" "His statement," replied the Commissioner, "is that he saw Mr.Lyne at his flat at nine o'clock, and that Mr.Lyne gave him five pounds in the presence of Lyne's butler.

He said he left the flat and went to his lodgings in Lambeth, where he went to bed very early.