to the story. The story itself ran quite easily, naturally,
consecutively--you could make it in sections. And Spargo, sitting
merely to listen, made them:

1. The Temple porter and Constable Driscoll proved the finding of the
body.

2. The police surgeon testified as to the cause of death--the man had
been struck down from behind by a blow, a terrible blow--from some
heavy instrument, and had died immediately.

3. The police and the mortuary officials proved that when the body was
examined nothing was found in the clothing but the now famous scrap of
grey paper.

4. Rathbury proved that by means of the dead man's new fashionable
cloth cap, bought at Fiskie's well-known shop in the West-End, he
traced Marbury to the Anglo-Orient Hotel in the Waterloo District.

5. Mr. and Mrs. Walters gave evidence of the arrival of Marbury at the
Anglo-Orient Hotel, and of his doings while he was in and about there.

6. The purser of the ss. _Wambarino_ proved that Marbury sailed from
Melbourne to Southampton on that ship, excited no remark, behaved
himself like any other well-regulated passenger, and left the
_Wambarino_ at Southampton early in the morning of what was to be the
last day of his life in just the ordinary manner.

7. Mr. Criedir gave evidence of his rencontre with Marbury in the
matter of the stamps.