MR.

JOHN PHILLIPS He began to put back the various boxes and parcels into the chest as he spoke, and we all looked at each other as men might look who, taking a way unknown to them, come up against a blank wall.

But Chisholm, who was a sharp fellow, with a good headpiece on him, suddenly spoke.
"There's the fact that the murdered man sent that letter from Peebles," said he, "and that he himself appears to have travelled from Peebles but yesterday.

We might be hearing something of him at Peebles, and from what we might hear, there or elsewhere, we might get some connection between the two of them." "You're right in all that, sergeant," said Mr.Lindsey, "and it's to Peebles some of you'll have to go.

For the thing's plain--that man has been murdered by somebody, and the first way to get at the somebody is to find out who the murdered man is, and why he came into these parts.