The other laughed. I am Wilton Barnstable. The other appeared disappointed for a moment. The detective brightened perceptibly. I will not mystify you, Mr. Cleggett, about the box.
Mystification is one of the tricks of the older schools of detection.
I never practice it, Mr. Cleggett. Cleggett felt a dull pang of the heart. If the box of Reginal Maltravers were in the hands of Logan Black he could at least trade the other oblong box to Loge for it, and thus save Lady Agatha. It interests me, that box. I have no doubt it has its story.