May I suggest that you rescue those copies, as I have a rather startling matter to make clear to you ?" Too grand an official to stoop to a waste-basket, he nodded to the constable.

The latter brought the papers; and, selecting one from the lot, I spread it out on the table.

"The issue of July twenty-seventh," I said.
I pointed to an item half-way down the column of Personal Notices.

You yourself, my lady, may read it there if you happen to have saved a copy.
It ran as follows: "RANGOON: The asters are in full bloom in the garden at Canterbury.

They are very beautiful--especially the white ones." Bray grunted, and opened his little eyes.