Chapter 7

"How is he?" asked Walford. "When they released him from his lower dungeon," said Bliss, with the ghost of a smile in his eyes, "he was slightly insane, but not, I think, quite so insane as Mr. Hagger of Crouchstead, who is no longer a lifelong abstainer. Mr. Strathpenner used the lower dungeon as a wine cellar, and they had to live on something. They might be living there still if The Ringer hadn't been obliging enough to send me a wire." _CHAPTER III          THE MURDERER OF MANY NAMES_ I Mr. Ellroyd arrived in E…