But Donald Megbie was awake in the Inner Temple, and his thoughts were curious and strange.
Donald Megbie had left the party too early in the evening. He was drunk of nothing at all!
CHAPTER XVI
STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN THE TEMPLE
Like most writers, Donald Megbie was of a nervous and sensitive temperament. Both mental and physical impressions recorded themselves very rapidly and completely upon his consciousness.
He arrived at the Inner Temple with every nerve in a state of excitement, such as he had hardly ever known before.
He walked down the dim echoing ways towards the river, his chambers being situated in the new buildings upon the embankment.
A full moon hung in the sky, brilliant and honey-coloured, attended by little drifts of amber and sulphur-tinted clouds.
But the journalist saw nothing of the night's splendour. He almost stumbled up the stairs to the first floor.