Who was he ?" The servant shook his head.

He was apparently a German, and stupid.
"There are no valets on this floor except myself," he declared.
"Then who could this person have been ?" Hunterleys demanded.
"A tailor, perhaps," the man suggested, "but he would not come unless you had ordered him.

I have been on duty all the time.

I have seen no one about." "Very well," Hunterleys said, "I'll report the matter in the office." "Some hotel thief, I suppose," Lane remarked, as soon as the door was closed.

"He didn't look like it exactly, though." Hunterleys frowned.
"Not much here to satisfy any one's curiosity," he observed.