He said that he should settle down for a time at some residential hotel in London, and in the meantime he had one or two calls, or visits, to make in the country: when he returned from them, he said, he would call on me again.
He gave me very little information about himself: it was not necessary, for his references from our agents in Australia were quite satisfactory.
But he did mention that he had been out there for some years, and had speculated in landed property--he also said that he was now going to settle in England for good.

That," concluded Mr.Chilstone, "is all I can tell of my own knowledge.

But," he added, drawing a newspaper from his pocket, "here is an advertisement which I noticed in this morning's Times as I came down.

You will observe," he said, as he passed it to the Coroner, "that it has certainly been inserted by our unfortunate customer." The Coroner glanced at a marked passage in the personal column of the Times, and read it aloud: "The advertisement is as follows," he announced.

"'If this meets the eye of old friend Marco, he will learn that Sticker wishes to see him again.