Finally the police took a hand in the matter.

They were on the scent just then of a party of counterfeiters and were suspicious of the sounds and lights in this apparently unoccupied dwelling.

But they watched and waited in vain.

One of them got a scare and that was all.

The mystery went unsolved and the sign "To Let" remained indefinitely on the house-front.
At last a family from the West decided to risk the terrors of this domicile.