Chapter XXIVWhen he had finished, Miss Silver laid her knitting in her lap.
‘Just a moment, Mr Moray. I think we want to get things clear. We have a conspiracy, and there are a number of persons whom we suspect of being involved in it. You have the advantage of having seen some of these people. I would like to go back to the night of October third and just see whether any of these people can be identified. You looked into the room where the man in the grey mask was transacting his business. You saw him—’
Charles shrugged his shoulders.
‘I saw nothing that anyone could recognize. I can think of no one whom I suspect of being Grey Mask.’
‘I have come across him before,’ said Miss Silver ‘—not as Grey Mask of course; but in the last five or six years I have constantly come across small bi
