He then slipped the card into his pocket-book.
"'It was only two or three days later,' added Mr.Verner in the midst of breathless silence, 'that I had occasion to refer to these same notes again.
"'In the meanwhile the papers had been full of the mysterious death on the Underground Railway, and the names of those connected with it were pretty familiar to me.

It was, therefore, with much astonishment that on looking at the paste-board which I had casually picked up in the railway carriage I saw the name on it, "Frank Errington."' "There was no doubt that the sensation in court was almost unprecedented.

Never since the days of the Fenchurch Street mystery, and the trial of Smethurst, had I seen so much excitement.

Mind you, I was not excited--I knew by now every detail of that crime as if I had committed it myself.

In fact, I could not have done it better, although I have been a student of crime for many years now.