But Berber had just fallen when the messenger arrived there.

He was seized upon and imprisoned the day after his arrival.

But during the one day which he had free he hid the letter in the wall of a house, and so far as he knows it has not been discovered." "He would have been questioned if it had been," said Mather.
"Precisely, and he was not questioned.

He escaped from Berber at night, three weeks ago.

The story is curious, eh ?" "And the letter still remains in the wall?
It is curious.