"It is a surer thing, on the whole.

A dead man can't change his clothes, and get his beard shaved off, and cavoort around the corner." "Not generally speaking," said the other, "no well-regulated corpse would do it, anyhow.

Besides, if he is dead, there must have been some notice of it in the Heidelberg papers.

He belonged to the University, and they always put those things in the local sheet in Germany." "That's so," said the lawyer.

"Do you know anybody in Heidelberg who would look the matter up, Mr.Barker ?" Mr.Barker did know some one in Heidelberg--the very man, in fact.