The man was mad--on the verge of a collapse--and he handed over to Dorward his notes, and a verbatim report of all that passed at the Palace this morning." She looked at him incredulously.
"My dear David!" she exclaimed.
"It is amazing," he admitted, "but it is the truth.

I know it for a fact.

The man was absolutely beside himself, he had no idea what he was doing." "Where is it ?" she asked quickly.

"You have seen it ?" "Dorward would not give it up," he said bitterly.

"While we argued in our sitting-room at the hotel the police arrived.