The landlord made a clatter of glasses, and the threatened storm passed.
"You've aroused my curiosity," remarked Franklin to Peters, but taking the company at large into the conversation.

"This does certainly strike one as a remarkable case.

Is there no suspicion yet as to the actual murderer ?" "None whatever," said Peters.
"That's what you may call the police opinion," broke in Elkin.

"We Steynholme folk have a pretty clear notion, I can assure you." "The matter is still _sub judice_, and may remain so a long time," said Siddle.

"It is simply stupid to attach a kind of responsibility to the man who happens to occupy the house associated with the crime.