Where are the other two ?" "That's it! That's the question I have put myself ever since I interrogated the steward and found him ready to swear to the correctness of his report and the disappearance of these two bottles.

Ranelagh did not empty them, or the bottles themselves would have been found somewhere about the place.

Now, who did ?" "No one within the club-house precincts.

They were opened and emptied elsewhere.

There's our clew and if the man you've got up from New York is worth his salt, he has his task ready to hand." "A hard task for a stranger--and such a stranger! Not very prepossessing, to say the least.