I should like to say that you are wrong in doing so, but if I did I should be uncandid.

There are certain facts that do, undoubtedly, seem to suggest a connection, and, up to the present, there are no definite facts of a contrary significance." Mr.Bellingham sighed deeply and shifted uncomfortably in his chair.
"It is a horrible affair!" he said huskily; "horrible! Would you mind, Doctor Thorndyke, telling us just how the matter stands in your opinion--what the probabilities are, for and against ?" Again Thorndyke reflected awhile, and it seemed to me that he was not very willing to discuss the subject.

However, the question had been asked pointedly, and eventually he answered: "At the present stage of the investigation it is not very easy to state the balance of probabilities.

The matter is still quite speculative.

The bones which have been found hitherto (for we are dealing with a skeleton, not with a body) have been exclusively those which are useless for personal identification; which is, in itself, a rather curious and striking fact.