He's retired--a good many years, now, and lives the other side of Alnwick, in a place of his own.

But this affair's fetched him into the light again--to some purpose!" "I saw him in the court when Carter was before the bench, Mr.Lindsey," I remarked.
"Aye!--and I wish he'd told me that day what he could have told!" exclaimed Mr.Lindsey under his breath.

"But he's a cautious, a very cautious man, and he preferred to work quietly, and it wasn't until very late tonight that he came to Murray and sent for me--an hour, it was, after you'd gone home.

The other man with him is a London detective.

Man! there's nice revelations come out!--and pretty much on the lines I was suspecting.