To the ordinary human being who knew Baring, there remains a substratum almost of uneasiness.
Where did that voice come from that spoke along the wires, and what was its message?
Baring, by all accounts, had no secrets in his life.

What was the message--a warning or a threat ?" "I did not read the account of the inquest," Norgate observed.

"Wasn't it possible to trace the person who rang up, through the telephone office ?" "In an ordinary case, yes," Selingman agreed.

"In this case, no! The person who rang up made use of a call office.

But come, it is a gloomy subject, this.