“Yes, yes.”
“You remember what I said to you last night?”
“Perfectly.”
“Well, it occurred to me that this was the crime we were waiting for.”
“I was unaware that I was waiting for any crime,” said the other.
“Well, you remember my predicting that a crime of this nature would occur?”
“An easy prediction in London, where we have a murder every second day.”
“Not strangulation without an apparent motive.”
“Well, well; what do you wish to say about it?”
“Well, convinced in my own mind that the author of this crime was also the criminal in the Gyde and Lefarge cases, I determined to come up here and look about.”