If you create a lot of interest in a disappearance, you have to satisfy the public curiosity when the mystery is solved." "I see," Wilmore murmured.

"All the same, I can't imagine Reggie getting mixed up in anything discreditable." "Neither can I, from what I remember of the boy," Francis agreed.

"Let me see, what was he doing in the City ?" "He was with Jameson & Scott, the stockbrokers," Wilmore replied.

"He was only learning the business and he had no responsibilities.

Curiously enough, though, when I went to see Mr.Jameson he pointed out one or two little matters that Reggie had attended to, which looked as though he were clearing up, somehow or other." "He left no message there, I suppose ?" "Not a line or a word.