'It is bad enough that one of us should have been in
its shadow,' he said. 'Please God it shall never fall upon you!'
It was some real valley in which he had lived and in which
something terrible had occurred to him, of that I am certain; but
I can tell you no more."
"And he never mentioned any names?"
"Yes, he was delirious with fever once when he had his hunting
accident three years ago. Then I remember that there was a name
that came continually to his lips. He spoke it with anger and a
sort of horror. McGinty was the name--Bodymaster McGinty. I
asked him when he recovered who Bodymaster McGinty was, and whose
body he was master of. 'Never of mine, thank God!' he answered
with a laugh, and that was all I could get from him. But there
is a connection between Bodymaster McGinty and the Valley of
Fear."
"There is one other point," said Inspector MacDonald. "You met
Mr. Douglas in a boarding house in London, did you not, and
became engaged to him there? Was there any romance, anything
secret or mysterious, about the wedding?"
"There was romance. There is always romance. There was nothing
mysterious.
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