I failed to recognize the countenance, and glanced up questioningly at Miles just as he uttered an exclamation of surprise.
"It's one of Mahoney's fellows, sir," he asserted sharply.

"Burke's the name." "Then he couldn't possibly be the same man Miss Hardy saw up stairs that first time." "No, sir, this don't help none to clear that affair up.

But it's Burke all right, an' he's had a knife driven through his heart.

What do you ever suppose he could 'a' been doin' down here ?" "Where was he stationed ?" "He was with me till that last shindy started; then when you called for more men in the kitchen I sent him an' Flynn out there." Miles lit a third match, and I looked about striving to piece together the evidence.

I began to think I understood something of what had occurred.