"He couldn't have done it himself--look at his head--he couldn't have smashed it like that--someone must have done it for him."
"Looks as if that were the case, sir."
"Then who can have done it?--in my hotel; with the house full of people; in a private sitting-room; seated at his own dinner-table! What have you been doing?"
"Several things; there have been a great many things, sir, to do, with the house so busy. I've seen and heard nothing of what was taking place in this room since I came to say there was a gentleman wished to see him."
"A gentleman? What gentleman?"
"That I couldn't say, sir. A message and a note were brought to me; which I brought in to Mr Emmett; and he went out to see the gentleman."
"Went out, did he? He didn't bring the gentleman in here?"
"Not so far as I am aware, sir. They ought to be able to tell you better about that downstairs."
The personage was looking about him.
"What's all this broken glass?--and what's that?"