But I had no idea in what part of that huge building his sleeping place might be, nor, for patent reasons, was it desirable that I should disturb the house and so create talk.

In this dilemma I remembered that Lord Ragnall's confidential servant, Mr.Savage, when he conducted me to my room on the previous night, which he made a point of doing perhaps because he wished to talk over the matter of the snakes that had found their way into his pockets, had shown me a bell in it which he said rang outside his door.

He called it an "emergency bell." I remarked idly that it was improbable that I should have any occasion for its use.
"Who knows, sir ?" said Mr.Savage prophetically.

"There are folk who say that this old castle is haunted, which after what I have seen to-night I can well believe.

If you should chance to meet a ghost looking, let us say, like those black villains, Harum and Scarum, or whatever they call themselves--well, sir, two's better company than one." I considered that bell but was loath to ring it for the reasons I have given.