"Later in the week, perhaps, I may have a big story for your private ear.

All I can say at the moment is this--I have reason to believe that a young lady, a daughter of Mr.James Creighton Forbes, a well-known man in the city of London, is being decoyed to Eastbourne in the belief that her mother is ill.

Now, I may be wholly mistaken.

Her mother may be ill.

If that is so, I am making this trip under a delusion.