"Yours sincerely,"
"J. PETERSON."
The second letter bore a date some three or four days later.
"DEAR DALE,—"
"I have gone into the matter very closely, making the most
careful examination in every possible quarter; and, grieved
as I am to say such words, everything points the same way.
No one except yourself has had the opportunity. The whole
suspicion rests upon you, and upon you alone."
"I see no other possibility. If a loophole existed, no matter