"But look here--you're not going back to town to-night ?" "Why, that's just what I meant to do," replied Allerdyke.

"There's naught to stop here for, is there ?" "I'm expecting a message from the Christiania police some time this afternoon or evening," said Chettle.

"I cabled to them yesterday making full inquiries about Lydenberg--he represented himself here, to Dr.Orwin and the police-surgeons especially, as being a medical man in practice in Christiania, who had come across to Hull on some entirely private family business.

Now, we've made the most exhaustive inquiries here in Hull--there isn't a soul in the town knows anything whatever of Lydenberg! I'm as certain as I am that I see you that he'd no business here at all--except to kill and rob your cousin.

And so, of course, we want to know if he really was what he said he was, over there.