It's a long time ago and all the people Bassett knew at that time had scattered to the far corners of the earth.
But that book struck dad all of a heap.

It fitted into what he had heard about Bassett as a dilettante book collector; even then Bassett was interested in such things.

And you know in that account of him you wrote in the 'Courier' that I told you I had read on the other side that first time we met?
Well, when dad and I went to the Adirondacks it was only partly on my account; he met a man up there who had been working up Bassett's past, and dad went over all the ground himself.

It was most amazing that it should all come out that way, but he found the place, and the same man is still living at the house where the strange woman stayed that Ware told about.

I know it's just as rotten as it can be, but dad's sure Bassett was the man who took that woman there and deserted her.