A figure one could love; could work for; could die for...! Mr.Corbeck came back in a very short time with the book; he had found it at once in the spot where he had seen it three years before.

Having placed in it several slips of paper, marking the places where I was to read, he put it into my hands, saying: "That is what started Mr.Trelawny; what started me when I read it; and which will, I have no doubt, be to you an interesting beginning to a special study--whatever the end may be.

If, indeed, any of us here may ever see the end." At the door he paused and said: "I want to take back one thing.

That Detective is a good fellow.

What you have told me of him puts him in a new light.