It is not, in fact, connected with the actual--tragedy to which you have alluded.

My commission is to regain possession of a paper which was stolen either from the person of Morris Barnes or from amongst his effects, on that night." Wrayson looked up eagerly.
"The motive at last!" he exclaimed.

"What was the nature of this paper, sir ?" Mr.Bentham's eyebrows were slowly raised.
"That," he said, "we need not enter into for the moment.

The matter of business between you and myself, or rather my client, is this.

I am authorized to offer a thousand pounds reward for its recovery." Wrayson was impressed, although the other's manner left him a little puzzled.
"Why not offer the reward for the discovery of the murderer ?" he asked.
"It would come, I presume, to the same thing." "By no means," the lawyer answered dryly.