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"Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing man. I know him from the photograph."

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The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I charged with?"

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"With making away with Mr. Neville St. Oh, come, you can't be charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake."

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"If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally detained."

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"No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted you wife.


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