CHAPTER VI.
ALL HE KNEW "The tramp was missing," continued the man in the corner, "and Mr.
Francis Howard tried to find the missing tramp.

Going round to the front, and seeing the lights at No.

26 still in, he called upon Mr.
Shipman.

The jeweller had had a few friends to dinner, and was giving them whiskies-and-sodas before saying good night.

The servants had just finished washing up, and were waiting to go to bed; neither they nor Mr.
Shipman nor his guests had seen or heard anything of the suspicious individual.
"Mr.Francis Howard went on to see Mr.Ferdinand Knopf.