A female scream rent the atmosphere of guilt.

A man's voice below exclaimed "Hullo!" A man's feet ascended the stairs.

Mr.Godfrey felt Christian fingers unfastening his bandage, and extracting his gag.

He looked in amazement at two respectable strangers, and faintly articulated, "What does it mean ?" The two respectable strangers looked back, and said, "Exactly the question we were going to ask YOU." The inevitable explanation followed.

No! Let me be scrupulously particular.