"My information is--confidential." Rathbury inclined his head and put his fingers together.
"You may speak with every confidence, Mr.Myerst," he answered.

"If what you have to tell has any real bearing on the Marbury case, it will probably have to be repeated in public, you know, sir.

But at present it will be treated as private." "It has a very real bearing on the case, I should say," replied Mr.
Myerst.

"Yes, I should decidedly say so.

The fact is that on June 21st at about--to be precise--three o'clock in the afternoon, a stranger, who gave the name of John Marbury, and his present address as the Anglo-Orient Hotel, Waterloo, called at our establishment, and asked if he could rent a small safe.