I've no doubt you're his sister, and I'll take the responsibility of going through his effects with you.

You'll be stopping in the town a day or two?
Maybe your mother, Hugh, can find Mrs.
Hanson a lodging ?" I answered that my mother would no doubt do what she could to look after Mrs.Hanson; and presently the woman went away with Maisie, leaving her papers with Mr.Lindsey.He turned to me when we were alone.
"Some folks would think that was a bit of help to me in solving the mystery, Hugh," said he; "but hang me if I don't think it makes the whole thing more mysterious than ever! And do you know, my lad, where, in my opinion, the very beginning of it may have to be sought for ?" "I can't put a word to that, Mr.Lindsey," I answered.

"Where, sir ?" "Panama!" he exclaimed, with a jerk of his head.

"Panama! just that! It began a long way off--Panama, as far as I see it.

And what did begin, and what was going on?
The two men that knew, and could have told, are dead as door-nails--and both buried, for that matter." So, in spite of Mrs.Hanson's coming and her revelations as to some, at any rate, of James Gilverthwaite's history, we were just as wise as ever at the end of the first week after the murder of John Phillips.