"Nothing more; but it was something, you see. He admitted, to all intents, that the diamonds were not his own. And now see here. I suppose I left him about ten o'clock. Here is a paragraph in one of this morning's newspapers. It is only in the one paper; the matter seems to have occurred rather late for press." Hewitt gave me the paper in his hand, pointing to the following paragraph: /# "HORRIBLE DISCOVERY.--A shocking discovery was made just before midnight last night, near the York column, where a police-constable found the dead body of a man lying on the stone steps. The body, which was fully clothed in the ordinary dress of a labouring man, bore plain marks of strangulation, and it was evident that a brutal murder had been committed. A singular circumstance was the presence of a curious reddish mark upon the forehead, at first taken for a wound, but soon discovered to be a mark apparently drawn or impressed on the skin. At the time of going to press, no arrest had been made, and so far the affair appears a mystery." #/ "Well," I said, "this certainly seems curious, especially in the matter of the mark on the forehead. But what has it all to do----" "To do with Samuel and his diamonds, you mean? I'll tell you. _That dead man is Denson!_" "Denson?" I exclaimed. "Denson? How?" "I get it from the housekeeper next door. It seems that when the police came to examine the body they found, among other things--money and a watch, and the like--a piece of an addressed envelope, used to hold a few pins--the pins stuck in and the paper rolled up, you know. There was just enough of it to guess the address by--that of the office next door; and it was the only clue they had. So they came along here at once and knocked up the housekeeper. He went with them and instantly recognised Denson, disguised in labourer's clothes, but Denson, he says, unmistakably." "And the mark on the forehead?" "That is very odd. It is an outlined triangle, rather less than an inch along each side. It is quite red, he says, and seems to be done in a greasy, sticky sort of ink or colour." "Was anything found--the diamonds?" "No. He says there was money--two or three five-pound notes, I believe, some small change, a watch, keys and so forth; but there's not a word of diamonds."