Find the answer for it, if you can.
"I told the detective that he seemed bent upon mystifying me, and that
he certainly succeeded to his heart's content.
"Mr. Carter laughed a triumphant little laugh.
"'Never you mind, sir,' he said; you leave it to me, and you watch it
well, sir. It'll work out very neatly, unless I'm altogether wrong. Wait
for the end, Mr. Austin, and wait patiently. Do you know what I shall do
to-morrow?'
"'I haven't the faintest idea.'
"'I shall waste no more time in asking questions. I shall have the water
near the scene of the murder dragged. I shall try and find the clothes
that were stripped off the man who was murdered last August!'"
CHAPTER XXXIX.
CLEMENT AUSTIN'S JOURNAL CONTINUED.
"The rest of the evening passed quietly enough. Mr. Carter drank his
strong tea, and then asked my permission to go out and smoke a couple of
cigars in the High Street. He went, and I finished my letter to my
mother. There was a full moon, but it was obscured every now and then by
the black clouds that drifted across it. I went out myself to post the
letter, and I was glad to feel the cool breeze blowing the hair away
from my forehead, for the excitement of the day had given me a nervous
headache.
"I posted my letter in a narrow street near the hotel.
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