XVII.
BUTTERWORTH VERSUS GRYCE.
The result of this attention can be best learned from the conversation I held with Mr. Gryce the next morning.
He came earlier than usual, but he found me up and stirring.
"Well," he cried, accosting me with a smile as I entered the parlor where he was seated, "it is all right this time, is it not? No trouble in identifying the gentleman who entered your neighbor's house last night at a quarter to twelve?"
Resolved to probe this man's mind to the bottom, I put on my sternest air.
"I had not expected any one to enter there so late last night," said I. "Mr. Van Burnam declared so positively at the inquest that he was the person we have been endeavoring to identify, that I did not suppose you would consider it necessary to bring him to the house for me to see."
"And so you were not in the window?"