What I am certain about is that he took fright yesterday morning in our court, when I produced that ice-ax and asked the doctor those questions about it." "And I'm sure of that, too, Mr.Lindsey," said I."And I've been wondering what there was about yon ice-ax that frightened him.

You'll know that yourself, of course ?" "Aye, but I'm not going to tell you!" he answered.

"You'll have to await developments on that point, my man.

And now we'll be getting to bed, and in the morning we'll see this Mr.Gavin Smeaton.

It would be a queer thing now, wouldn't it, if we got some clue to all this through him?
But I'm keenly interested in hearing that he comes from the other side of the Atlantic, Hugh, for I've been of opinion that it's across there that the secret of the whole thing will be found." They had brought me a supply of clothes and money with them, and first thing in the morning I went off to the docks and found my Samaritan skipper, and gave him back his sovereign and his blue serge suit, with my heartiest thanks and a promise to keep him fully posted up in the development of what he called the case.