The connection was accidental and in no wise relevant.
Then, too, there was the missing finger.

No reference to any such injury or deformity had been made in the original report of the disappearance, though it could hardly have been overlooked.

But it was useless to speculate without facts.

I should be seeing Thorndyke in the course of the next few days, and, undoubtedly, if the discovery had any bearing upon the disappearance of John Bellingham, I should hear of it.

With which reflection I rose from the table, and, adopting the advice contained in the spurious Johnsonian quotation proceeded to "take a walk in Fleet Street" before settling down for the evening..