There is no such place as Woodcroft Park, in Somerset, and no member of Brook's Club of the name of Hornby." I sat staring at the official, too amazed to utter a word.

Certainly they had not allowed the grass to grow beneath their feet.
"Unfortunately the telegraphic replies from England are only to hand this morning," he went on, "because just before two o'clock this morning the harbor police, whom I specially ordered to watch the vessel, saw a boat come to the wharf containing a man and woman.

The pair were put ashore, and walked away into the town, the woman seeming to walk with considerable difficulty.

The boat returned, and an hour after, to the complete surprise of the two detectives, steam was suddenly got up and the yacht turned and went straight out to sea." "Leaving the man and the woman ?" "Leaving them, of course.

They are probably still in the town.