Sir Gilbert Carstairs, who was the seventh baronet, had only recently come to the neighbourhood on succeeding to the title and estates.

Mr.Moneylaws, who was senior clerk to Mr.Lindsey, solicitor, of Berwick, was a very promising young man of great ability, and had recently been much before the public eye as a witness in connection with the mysterious murders of John Phillips and Abel Crone, which are still attracting so much attention." I shoved the newspaper into Mr.Lindsey's hand as he came out of the telegraph office.

He read the paragraph in silence, smiling as he read.
"Aye!" he said at last, "you have to leave home to get the home news.
Well--they're welcome to be thinking that for the present.

I've just wired Murray that I'll be here till at any rate this evening, and that he's to telegraph at once if there's tidings of that yacht or of Carstairs.

Meanwhile, well go and see this Mr.Smeaton." Mr.Smeaton was expecting us--he, too, was reading about me in the _Advertiser_ when we entered, and he made some joking remark about it only being great men that were sometimes treated to death-notices before they were dead.