And now I'll go back there and find out if there's any fresh news from the police or from Hull.

I reckon there'll be some fine reading in the newspapers in a day or two, Ambler--it'll all have to come out now." In this supposition Allerdyke was right.

The police authorities, finding that the affair had assumed dimensions of an astonishing magnitude, decided to seek the aid of the Press, and to publish the entire story in the fullest possible fashion.

And Allerdyke and all London woke next morning to find the newspapers alive with a new sensation, and every other man asking his neighbour what it all meant.

Three mysterious murders--two big thefts--together--the newspaper world had known nothing like it for years, and the only regrets in Fleet Street were those of the men who would have sacrificed their very noses to have got the story exclusively to themselves.