He confined himself to a reply which was a strict statement of fact, so far as it went.
"Until I heard Thalassa's story to-day I had no idea of the time of my own arrival at Flint House on that night," he said.
"The clock found lying on the floor upstairs was stopped at half-past nine," remarked Barrant with a reflective air, as though turning over all the facts in his mind.

"According to the story told you by Thalassa, he and Miss Turold left the house shortly after half-past eight.

Thalassa could not have returned until after half-past nine.

He found the house in darkness, his wife lying unconscious in the kitchen, and his master dead upstairs.

Thalassa, retracting his previous statement that he was not out of Flint House that night, for the first time tells of some mysterious avenger who, he thinks, killed Robert Turold while he was out of the house with Miss Turold.