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