CHAPTER XIII.
THE CASE.
Peter went to work the next morning at an hour which most of us, if we are indiscreet enough to wake, prefer to use as the preface to a further two to four hours' nap.

He had spent his evening in a freshening of his knowledge in certain municipal laws, and other details which he thought he might need, and as early as five o clock he was at work in the tenement district, asking questions and taking notes.

The inquiry took little skill The milk had come from the cart of a certain company, which passed daily through the locality, not to supply orders, but to peddle milk to whoever cared to buy.

Peter had the cart pointed out that morning, but, beyond making a note of the exact name of the company, he paid no attention to it.

He was aiming at bigger game than a milk cart or its driver.
His work was interrupted only by his taking Mrs.Dooley and the two children to the train.