young man, Herbert Hambly, who, it appears, induced John Monday

to tell him where I was in the habit of keeping my money;

but though John Monday confessed his share of the business

as soon as ever the robbery was discovered, the police have been

quite unable, up to the present, to find a clue to Herbert

Hambly's whereabouts. He has disappeared from Haughton, and

seems to have left no trace behind him."

"You will realise, my dear Mousey, how much this affair has

upset me, especially when I tell you that John Monday has

left me. I do not think I am to be blamed for reproaching