Since that time I have had a man making inquiries along the roads between Reigate and Kingston, but altogether without success.

I should be glad to follow up any other line that you might suggest, and that might offer any reasonable possibility of success, but I must own that at present we are entirely off the scent." "I am thinking of devoting myself entirely to the quest.

I have no occupation at present.

I have an income amply sufficient for my wants, and for all expenses that I may incur, and I intend to devote, if necessary, some years of my life to hunting this man down.

As your men have searched without success in the country, I think for the present my best plan will be to devote myself to learning something of the ways and haunts of the criminal classes of London, and it is with that object that I have come to you now.