James Cobham, broker--he was getting on to fifty, left about a million, came near being indicted during the Graft Prosecutions, and although his wife has been in the newspapers as a society leader for the last twenty years, and he was one of the founders of Burlingame, and then was active in changing the name of the high part to Hillsboro when the swells felt they couldn't be identified with the village any longer, and he handed out wads the first of every year to charity, there are stories that he came near being divorced by his haughty wife about fifteen years ago.

Of course, those men don't parade their mistresses openly like they did thirty years ago--I mean men with any social position to keep up.

But now and again the wife finds a note, or receives an anonymous letter, and gets busy.

Then it's the divorce court, unless he can smooth her down, and promises reform.

Cobham seems to me the likeliest man, and I'm going to start a thorough investigation to-morrow.