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THE following morning, a few minutes before 10, the three detectives, Naughton Jones, Vallon, and Larose, along with Raphael Croupin, were waiting in Dr. Grain's dining-room for the coming of Ephraim Smith.
Larose lay back in an armchair, looking weak and haggard, and for the time being the others, too, appeared to have lost something of the zest of life. Neither Jones nor Vallon had shaved, and Croupin was without that air of brightness and vivacity which was usually so characteristic of him.