In a small bare room such as you describe the difficulties in the way of finding the hidden receptacle cannot be so great as those you have already overcome.

You are perfectly correct in your supposition that the fragment you sent me was part of the letter that I sent over with the will to Mr.Penfold by my clerk.

I have compared it with the copy in my letter book, and find that it is the same.

As you say, this letter proves conclusively that Mr.Penfold was in this secret room after he received the will, and one can assign no reason for his going there unless to put the will away in what he considered a secure hiding-place.

That it is still somewhere there I have no doubt whatever, and I shall await with much anxiety news as to your further progress." Thinking the matter over, Mrs.Conway had come to the conclusion that the hiding-place could only be under one of the stone flags of the floor or in the wall against the fireplace, or rather in that part of it above the fireplace.