Glad if you can explain business referred to therein, or give any other information about his recent doings abroad.
"From MARSHALL ALLERDYKE, Station Hotel, Hull." It was by that time eight o'clock, and the railway station and the hotel had started into the business of another day.

There were signs that people who had stayed in the hotel over-night were about to take their departure by early trains, and Allerdyke hastened back to the office to look over the register--he was anxious to know who and what the folk were who had been near and about his cousin in his last hours.

But a mere glance at the big pages showed him the uselessness of his task.

There were some seventy or eighty entries, made during the previous twenty-four hours; it was impossible to go into the circumstances of each.

He turned with a look of despair to the manager at his elbow.
"Nothing much to be made out of that!" he muttered.