"You understand, of course," so he wrote in conclusion, "that nothing may come of our meeting at all.

So please don't say a word to anybody when you strike town.

You've lived here yourself, and you know that three words hove overboard in Bayport will dredge up gab enough to sink a dictionary.

So just keep mum till the business is settled one way or the other." He put on his hat and went down to the post office, where he dropped his letter in the slot of the box fastened to the front door.

Then he returned home and retired at exactly eleven o'clock.