No clew to the owner of the insignia found on the wall could be gained at the pension office or at any of the G.A.
R.posts inside the city.

Nor was the name of the artist who had painted the portrait which adorned so large a portion of the wall a recognized one in New York City.

Otherwise a clew might have been obtained through him to Mr.Adams's antecedents.

All the drawers and receptacles in Mr.
Adams's study had been searched, but no will had been found nor any business documents.

It was as if this strange man had sought to suppress his identity, or, rather, as if he had outgrown all interest in his kind or in anything beyond the walls within which he had immured himself.
Late in the afternoon reports began to come in from the various tradesmen with whom Mr.Adams had done business.