A LEE-ENFIELD RIFLE
What reply I should have offered to this astonishing remark I cannot say, but at that moment the library door burst open unceremoniously, and outlined against the warmly illuminated hall, where sunlight poured down through the dome, I beheld the figure of Inspector Aylesbury.
"Ah!" he cried, loudly, "so you have come back, Mr. Harley? I thought you had thrown up the case."
"Did you?" said Harley, smilingly. "No, I am still persevering in my ineffectual way."
"Oh, I see. And have you quite convinced yourself that Colin Camber is innocent?"
"In one or two particulars my evidence remains incomplete."
"Oh, in one or two particulars, eh? But generally speaking you don't doubt his innocence?"
"I don't doubt it for a moment."
Harley's words surprised me. I recognized,
