"Just so.

I thought you would, and I was sorry to ask you to perform such an unpleasant task but it was absolutely necessary.

Now," he continued, taking up his bundle of papers again, "I want you to describe the man who met you and your maid on your arrival at Hull the other night.

Of course you saw him ?" "Certainly I saw him," replied Celia.

"And I should know him again anywhere--the scoundrel!" The high official smiled and glanced at Fullaway.
"You are thinking, Miss Lennard, that the man you then saw is the man who accompanied your maid to the hotel in which she was found dead," he said.
"Well, that may be so--but it mayn't.