Now, it has become imperative that I should have more definite and reliable information about them than I can get from the newspapers.

The natural thing would be for me to go down and examine them myself, but there are circumstances that make it very desirable that my connection with the case should not leak out.

Consequently, I can't go myself, and, for the same reason, I can't send Jervis.

On the other hand, as it is now stated pretty openly that the police consider the bones to be almost certainly those of John Bellingham, it would seem perfectly natural that you, as Godfrey Bellingham's doctor, should go down to view them on his behalf." "I should like to go," I said.

"I would give anything to go; but how is it to be managed?
It would mean a whole day off and leaving the practice to take care of itself." "I think that could be arranged," said Thorndyke; "and the matter is really important for two reasons.