While Gordon was busy on the lower floor, Thomas and I made a tour of the house, with a view to closing it. I have instructed him to paint and put up the window boards which close the windows on the lower floor; I shall know no peace until the place is sealed, and left to its demons or its ghosts.
But I took advantage of my legitimate presence on the upper floor to examine the locked closet in which I had stored the red lamp. It is still there, and apparently has not been disturbed.…
Halliday today advised for me a period of masterly inactivity. Not that he calls it so, but that is what he means.
“I have an idea, Skipper,” he said, “that this calling Greenough off the case was sheer bluff. Every move he made was being watched, and unless I miss my guess you’ll find he’s at Bass Cove, or
