"He is remanded for a week. It takes some time to get up a case of this kind, and when we take one in hand we don't like to be beaten. I've had to do with many, Dr. Pye, and I've never been beaten yet. I don't mean to be beaten now." There was the faintest show of interest on his countenance. "Do you believe, in the young man's guilt, Mr. Lambert?" he asked. "Yes," I answered. "Don't you?" "How is it possible for me to have an opinion?" he said, and I looked upon it as an astonishing remark for him to make after the evidence he had given at the inquest. "But you saw him leave the house on the night of the murder, doctor, and under most suspicious circumstances, as if he were mortally afraid of being caught. Is not that enough to base an opinion upon?" "I must be just, Mr. Lambert. When my eyes fell upon Mr. Reginald Boyd in the Court I was startled by the resemblance he bore to the man I saw in the Square. If attention had not been called to my feeling of astonishment, which I suppose was expressed in my face, I am not sure whether I should have spoken of the resemblance." "But consider, doctor. You came forward in the interests of justice." "Undoubtedly." "Of your own accord. Without being summoned." "Yes." "Would it have been in the interests of justice that you should conceal this startling resemblance?" "It is a fair question. It would not. But still I say I might have reflected upon the matter before I gave my suspicion tongue." "You would have left the Court without revealing the secret?" "Secret!" he exclaimed. "Well, it was a matter known only to yourself. May we not call such a knowledge a secret?" "You argue skilfully, and have drawn me into a conversation which I would have perferred to avoid. My time is valuable, Mr. Lambert." "So is mine, Dr. Pye." There was a pause; each was waiting for the other to speak, and I was determined he should be the first. "May I inquire," he said, "your reason for evincing so extraordinary an interest in this affair?" Here was an opportunity for a bit of acting; I took advantage of it. Leaning forward I said in my most serious tone, "Dr. Pye, my reputation is at stake. It is a dangerous admission to make, but we are closeted together in confidence, and may say anything to each other without fear. No one can hear us"--(I was not so sure of that, but it suited my purpose to say it)--"and if either of us were called upon to give an account of our interview--though there is nothing more unlikely--we might say what we pleased, invent what we pleased, put into each other's mouth anything we pleased. That is the advantage of speaking without witnesses." "You are very frank," he said.