It repays the sum you advanced last night, and provides money for expenses." "I must first see Capella off," gasped the detective.
"All the more reason that you should fly." Left to himself, the barrister compiled memoranda for an hour or more.

He read through what he had written.
"The web is spreading quickly," he murmured.

"I wonder what sort of fly we shall catch! Is he buzzing about under our very noses, or will he be an unknown variety?
As they say in the Argentine--_Quien sabe ?_" During the journey to Stowmarket he mastered the contents of the bulky document sent from Glen Tochan.

It contained a great many irrelevant details, but he made the following notes:-- After the duel in 1763, David Hume, the man who avenged with his sword the supposed injury inflicted upon his father by the first Sir Alan Hume-Frazer, escaped to the Netherlands, and was never heard of again.
There was a local tradition on the Scotch estate that five Hume-Frazers would meet with violent deaths in England.

The reason for this singular belief was found in the recorded utterances of an old nurse, popularly credited with the gift of second sight, who prophesied, after the outlawry of the Humes in 1745, that there would be five long-lived generations of both families, and that five Frazers would die in their boots.
"Curiously enough," commented the old gentleman who supplied this information, "Aunt Elspeth's prediction is capable of two interpretations, owing to the fact that the first Sir Alan Frazer assumed the additional surname of Hume, I have absolutely no knowledge of any distinct branch of the Hume family.