"You mean the man who, by rights, ought to have been where the sheet of lead was, in that coffin?"
"I do."
"Well, that's how I came to know about it."
I jumped to my feet, and all the other occupants of the room, hearing my exclamation of surprise, turned round to look at me.
"What the devil do you mean?"
"Why, can't you guess? Because, sonny, I'm that man. I'm the man who led them such a dance. I'm the man who ought to have been dead and buried in that coffin. In fact, I'm Marcos Veneda!"