'There,' he says, 'that's our Marshall's latest performance--you'll have a job to do aught better than that, Wilson, my lad,' he says.

So that accounts for two.

And--this is the third!" "And the question, Mr.Allerdyke, the big question--a most important question!--is, how did it come into this man Lydenberg's possession ?" said the detective anxiously.

"If we can find that out--" "I've been thinking," interrupted Allerdyke.

"There's this about it, you know: James and this Lydenberg came over together from Christiania to Hull in the _Perisco_.