The man I was to meet may have been the murderer; you don't know who the murdered man is.

So you'd better put it this way: since Gilverthwaite sent me to meet some man at the place where this murder's been committed--well ?" "That'll be one of your lawyer's quibbles," said he calmly.

"My meaning's plain enough--we'll want to find out, if we can, who it was that Gilverthwaite sent you to meet.

And--for what reason?
And--where it was that the man was to wait for him?
And I'll get the superintendent to come down presently." "Make it in, say, half an hour," said I."This is a queer business altogether, sergeant, and I'm so much in it that I'm not going to do things on my own responsibility.

I'll call Mr.Lindsey up from his bed, and get him to come down to talk over what's to be done." "Aye, you're in the right of it there," he said.