"Where did you get this pocket-book?" asked Thomas.
"The day that Toby was taken sick I picked it up among the rocks here. I had been over at your fish-house, and found it when I was coming back. Been in the water, you see."
"Here are some letters on it--T.W."
"That means Tobias Winkley or--"
"Thomas Winkley. Can't prove it to be Thomas Trafton; and if you could no money is in it. 'T.W.,' that is Timothy Watson."
"Or Timothy Waters."
"Yes; Timothy Waters, or anything that would go with those initials. Toby Tolman wouldn't go."
"Now I must go upstairs again to be with my patient."
Dave Fletcher's heart was lighter as he went upstairs again, but the burden now lightening on his shoulders seemed to be transferred to those of Thomas Trafton.
"Don't understand this!" he exclaimed. "Where is Bart? Bart!"