Now let's get out and be at work." The ensuing conversation between these two and a deeply interested and much-impressed solicitor resulted in the dispatch of a lengthy cablegram to St.Petersburg, a conversation over the telephone with the housekeeper of Miss Celia Lennard's London flat, and the interviewing of the captain and stewards of the steamship on which James Allerdyke had crossed from Christiania.

The net result of this varied inquiry was small, and produced little that could throw additional light on the matter in question.

The _Perisco_ officials had not seen anything suspicious in the conduct or personality of any of their passengers.

They had observed James Allerdyke in casual conversation with some of them--they had seen him talking to Miss Lennard, to Dr.Lydenberg, to others, ladies and gentlemen who subsequently put up at the Station Hotel for the night.
Nothing that they could tell suggested anything out of the common.

Miss Lennard's housekeeper gave no other information than that her mistress was at present in Edinburgh, and was expected to remain there for at least a week.