He looked at Bryce with an expression of wonder.
"Here's a queer go!" he said.

"I can't make this out at all! Look at these big handbills--but perhaps you've seen 'em?
They're being posted all over the city--we've had a bundle of 'em thrown in on us." "I haven't been out since lunch," remarked Bryce.

"What are they ?" Mitchington spread out the two papers on the table, pointing from one to the other.
"You see ?" he said.

"Five Hundred Pounds Reward!--One Thousand Pounds Reward! And--both out at the same time, from different sources!" "What sources ?" asked Bryce, bending over the bills.

"Ah--I see.