"Heard nothing from the police authorities ?" "Nothing," replied Allerdyke.

"I suppose they're doing things in their own way, as usual." "Just so," assented Fullaway.

"Well, it's an odd thing to me that nobody comes forward to make some sort of a shot at that reward! Most extraordinary that the man of the Eastbourne Terrace affair should have been able to get clean away without anybody in London having seen him--or at any rate that the people who must have seen him are unable to connect him with the murder of that woman.

Extraordinary!" "It's all extraordinary," said Allerdyke.

He took up a newspaper which Fullaway had thrown down and began to talk of some subject that caught his eye, until Fullaway rose, pleaded business, and went off to his rooms upstairs.