“He must have given some explanation.”
“Very little. What he said mystified me more than ever. He declared that a short time before a messenger had come saying that I was in the house, waiting for him.”
“Whose house was it?”
“Raoul’s. He had rented it two months before and was living in it alone with two servants who were running it for him.”
“And this messenger——?”
“An Indian, whom neither of us saw or heard of again, although we inquired high and low.”
“The servants must have had information to give?”
“On being questioned they said I had arrived that morning on horseback, with an Indian, who left me there. This Indian was probably the messenger who informed Raoul of my arrival, and who afterwards disappeared. My horse was tethered in the courtyard.”
“The clews seem to have been pretty well obliterated,” remarked Leighton sarcastically. “But Arthur must have been able to shed some light on the affair.”