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nating intellectual problem ignorantly bungled. You, no doubt, share my conviction that the police have courted failure through confining their examinations too narrowly to the room itself; for I see that you have taken some pains to become conversant with the case."
He pointed to the newspaper on the table.
"Probably," he then went on, "you are much better informed as to the particulars than I am. So if you will enumerate to me the persons whom the police might possibly suspect, perhaps between us we can shed some light upon the problem."
McAdams hesitated and looked searchingly at his companions. Then he reflected that he was not known to them and was under no necessity of giving them his name.
"I believe," he said, with deep interest,
