I like to make a silent study of all the characters around, to search for motives and dissect evidence.

Human nature has its secrets, and very wonderful secrets too." "I once," Wrayson said thoughtfully, "saw a man tracked down by bloodhounds.

My sympathies were with the man." Heneage nodded.
"Your view of life," he remarked, "was always a sentimental one." "No correct view," Wrayson declared, "can ignore sentiment." "Granted; but it must be true sentiment, not false," Heneage said.

"This sentiment which interferes with justice is false sentiment." "Justice is altogether an arbitrary, a relative phrase," Wrayson declared.

"I know no more about the case of Morris Barnes than you do.