CONCERNING CHICKENS, AND MOTIVES The detective cooled off by the time they reached Brett's flat.

On the dining-room tables they found two telegrams and a Remington type-writer.
The messages were from Holden, Naples.
The first: "Johnson arrived here this morning." The second: "Johnson's proceedings refer to poorhouse and church registers." "Johnson is Capella," explained Winter.

"I forgot to tell you we had arranged that." Brett surveyed the second telegram so intently that the detective inquired: "How do you read that, sir ?" "Capella is securing copies of certificates--marriages, births, or deaths; perhaps all three.

He is also getting hold of living witnesses." "Of what ?" "He will tell us himself.

He is preparing a bombshell of sorts.