CHAPTER VIII.
A Plan to Intercept Correspondence--Edwards Fully Identified--A pretty Servant Girl and a Visit to Church.
While these events were transpiring at Woodford, William had not been idle in the city.

A constant watch had been maintained upon the several premises occupied by the relatives of Newton Edwards, in the hope of detecting some attempt upon their part to communicate with the suspected thief.

This at all times is rather a difficult object to achieve, but we have frequently been obliged to resort to this mode of acquiring information from lack of definite knowledge on which to base intelligent action.

In order that one of the many of these expedients may be fully understood, a few words in detail may not be out of place.

As is well known, the mail of an individual is so sacredly guarded by the laws of the country which govern the postal service, that an attempt to interfere with the letters of another is regarded as a felony and punished with severity.