"I have chatted with Olinto. His wife has mysteriously
disappeared, but he is in ignorance that she is dead."
"You did not tell him anything?"
"Nothing."
"Ah, you did well. There is widespread conspiracy here, depend
upon it, Mr. Gregg. It will be an interesting case when we get to
the bottom of it all. I only wish this fellow Chater would tell us
the reason he called upon Leithcourt."
"What does he say?"
"Merely that he has no wish to prosecute, and that he has no
statement to make."
"Can't you compel him to say something?" I asked.
"No, I can't. That's the infernal difficulty of it. If he don't
choose to speak, then we must still remain in ignorance, although I
feel confident that he knows something of the strange affair up in
the wood."
And although I was silent, I share
