Thinking of his varied fortunes within the last few weeks, and of his rustic boyhood, and of the two periods of his life so strangely brought together across the wide intermediate space; thinking of the murdered man whose image is fresh in his mind; thinking of the lady who has disappeared from these very rooms and the tokens of whose recent presence are all here; thinking of the master of the house upstairs and of the foreboding, "Who will tell him!" 
Thinking of his varied fortunes within the last few weeks, and of his rustic boyhood, two periods of his life so strangely brought together now; thinking of the murdered man; thinking of the lady who has disappeared from these very rooms; thinking of the master of the house upstairs,