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"Ask your question," said Wogan.

"To-night through that door in the garden wall which I guarded, there

went in yourself and a lady,--the King and a companion he had with

him,--four people. Out of that door there came yourself, the lady, and

the King,--three people."

"Ah," said Wogan, as he stood up with a strange smile upon his lips, "I

have a deal of clay upon my clothes."

O'Toole nodded his head wisely once or twice. "I am answered," he said.

"Is it indeed so?" He understood, however, nothing except that the room

had suddenly grown cold.