ile's cellar contained the solution of at least a portion of our mystery. He was quite unshakable on this point. I will not trouble t

id at last. "If you seriously think that Esdail

tiently, as if to beg

re being something peculiar about the ordinary acoustics of the place-perfectly ordinarily and naturally, but one of these freakish effects-

that we decided he couldn't know what it was. He certainly didn

ion of a man who knew more than all the rest of us p

it's the cellar-two peo

uickly. "Wh

d Mrs. Cu

t had they to

place had brought Mrs. Cunningham to the verge of hysteria,

s it goes that

ry. Esdaile even left the key in the door, and there was not

hey ru

to go scratching about other people's ho

e they didn't know

u?" I

ot unless he keeps a t

b would be right," I laughed; and