The seven men sat frozen in their seats.
"I said just now that I knew Birdy Edwards," McMurdo explained.

"I need not tell you that he is not here under that name.

He's a brave man, but not a crazy one.

He passes under the name of Steve Wilson, and he is lodging at Hobson's Patch." "How do you know this ?" "Because I fell into talk with him.

I thought little of it at the time, nor would have given it a second thought but for this letter; but now I'm sure it's the man.