"So far as any information which he gave me or seemed likely to give me, I might as well have talked in a foreign language.

But in his house, the day before yesterday, in his own library, hidden in a casket which opened only with a secret lock, I found two things." "What were they ?" the Ambassador asked quickly.
"A roll of silken cord," Penelope said, "such as was used to strangle poor Dicky, and a strangely shaped dagger exactly like the picture of the one with which Hamilton Fynes was stabbed." "Did he know that you found them ?" Mr.Blaine-Harvey asked.
"He was with me," Penelope answered.

"He even, at my request, opened the casket.

He must have forgotten that they were there." "Perhaps," the Ambassador said thoughtfully, "he never knew." "One cannot tell," Penelope answered.
"Did he say anything when you discovered them ?" the Ambassador asked.
"Nothing," Penelope declared.

"It was not necessary.