He glanced down at the paper and went on, speaking very slowly. “You say you suddenly woke up and heard the horrible mad laugh of one of them. Then a lot of names were mentioned but you remember only two of them, Burkington, because you have a girl friend of that name, and Clutterbuck, because it has such a funny sound.” He laughed. “And I quite agree with you. Clutterbuck does sound funny.” He went on. “Then it at once came to you that whoever was in the room, they were not eating, because there were no familial sounds of the clicking of knives and forks. Then—what happened?”
“Then I knew I must have been asleep a long time,” replied the girl, “for I saw that lunch was finished with and over. So I squirmed my body round until my eyes were opposite a crack in the ottoman and I saw four pa
