The cloth had been glued to a heavy sheet of pasteboard the exact size of the trunk bottom.

Beneath it lay half a dozen yellow letters, and face down two tissue-wrapped photographs.

The Harvester examined them first.

They were of a man close forty, having a strong, aggressive face, on which pride and dominant will power were prominently indicated.

The other was a reproduction of a dainty and delicate woman, with exquisitely tender and gentle features.