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Alas, thought I, even the most stupid policeman can not fail to look

upon me with the eye of suspicion!

In about twenty minutes three men arrived from Scotland Yard By that

time I had worked myself up into a state of absurd nervousness I heard

Walters let them in; heard them climb the stairs and walk about in the

room overhead In a short time Walters knocked at my door and told me

that Chief Inspector Bray desired to speak to me As I preceded the

servant up the stairs I felt toward him as an accused murderer must feel

toward the witness who has it in his power to swear his life away

He was a big active lish to act as unconcerned as an innocent

miserably, I fear--I related to hile, and the heavy ate He listened without comment At the end

he said: "You were acquainted with the captain?"

"Slightly," I told hi h a friend of

his--Archibald Enwright was the naht in London to vouch for you?"

"I'm afraid not I last heard of him in Interlaken"