"Not the ghost of one." "Well--we'll get these posters and handbills out, anyway, Mr.Brereton," said the solicitor.

"Five hundred pounds is a good figure.

Lord bless you!--some of these Highmarket folk would sell their mothers for half that! The whole population will be turned into amateur detectives.

Now let's draft the exact wording, and then we'll see the printer." Next day the bill-poster placarded Highmarket with the reward bills, and distributed them broadcast in shops and offices, and one of the first persons to lay hands on one was Mallalieu & Cotherstone's clerk, Herbert Stoner..