So, go home at once, and tell the governor
that I am following you in ten minutes.'
"'That,' said Arthur, 'is the way we parted. I never left him on more
friendly terms. I was happy to see him alive again, I was happy to
think he had returned in time to make up his quarrel with my father,
and I was happy that at last he was shut of that woman. I was never
better pleased with him in my life.' He turned to Inspector Lyle, who
was sitting at the foot of the bed, taking notes of all he told us.
"'Why, in the name of common-sense,' he cried, 'should I have chosen
that moment, of all others, to send my brother back to the grave?'
For a moment the Inspector did not answer him. I do not know if any
of you gentlemen are acquainted with Inspector Lyle, but if you are
not, I can assure you that he is a very remarkable man. Our firm
often applies to him for aid, and he has never failed us; my father
has the greatest possible respect for him. Where he has the advantage
over the ordinary police-official is in the fact that he possesses
imagination. He imagines himself to be the criminal, imagines how he
would act under the same circumstances, and he imagines to such
purpose that he generally finds the man he wants.
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