I don't know this, of course; I advance it merely as a possibility." Mr.Latham turned to Mr.Schultze and Mr.Czenki with a triumphant smile.

Diamonds in meteors! Tommyrot! "Of course," the detective resumed, "the whole investigation centers about this man Wynne.

He has been under the eyes of my agents as no other man ever was, and in spite of this has been able to keep in correspondence with his accomplices.

And, gentlemen, he has done it not through the mails, not over the telephone, not by telegraph, and yet he has done it." "By wireless, perhaps ?" suggested Mr.Czenki.

It was the first time he had spoken, and the detective took occasion then and there to stare at him frankly.
"And not by wireless," he said at last.