“Does he know anything of these?”

“I haven’t told him.”

“Nor of the others?”

“No”

“It might be a good idea—just to see how he took it.”

“If there was anything in them it might put him on his guard.”

I did not press the matter further just then, though I could not help wondering what story there was behind this queer series.

“Put a personal in the Courier,” I suggested, “inviting the writer of communications to the Peakborough police to send his address confidentially.”

“I did.”

“No result?”