"God bless my soul! I seemed to fancy that something fell on the top of my hat!" He put up a trembling hand and took from that shelf a piece of twisted paper, which he opened absently only to find it inscribed with a true lover's knot and, the words:-- "Your beauty has not left me indifferent .-- From LITTLE SNOWDROP." There was a short silence, and then Syme said, biting his beard-- "I'm not beaten yet.

The blasted thing must come down somewhere.

Let's follow it!".