"Music—painting—architecture—— I am afraid, Miss Madge, that is check-mate?"
"You said you had seen and heard something, Mr. Dillwyn," Mrs. Wishart now began. "Do tell us what. I have neither seen nor heard anything in an age."
Mr. Dillwyn was setting the chessmen again.
"What I saw," he said, "was a silk necktie—or scarf—such as we wear.
What I heard, was the price paid for making it."
"Was there anything remarkable about the scarf?"
"Nothing whatever; except the aforesaid price."
"What was the price paid for making it?"
"Two cents."
"Who told you?"
"A friend of mine, who took me in on purpose that I might see and hear, what I have reported."