She has already given her testimony, and I positively will not have her name mentioned in connection with the affair." "I don't see how you can help it," was his cool reply.

"If she's in, she's in, and I'm not to blame.

However, we won't quarrel about it now; we'll pay her a call in the morning." He ran his eyes over the clippings again, then added, "There are just two more points connecting Radnor Gaylord with the murder that need explaining: the foot-prints in the cave and the match box.

The foot-prints I will dismiss for the present because I have not seen them myself and I can't make any deductions from hearsay evidence.

But the question of the match box may repay a little investigation.