Do you be on the platform to meet me, and we can then either go straight on to Florence, or, should there be any occasion, I will get out there; but I don't think that is likely.
Pearson himself will to a certainty, sooner or later, go to Florence to get his luggage, and the only real advantage we shall get, if your inquiries are successful, will be to find out for certain whether he is concerned in the affair.

We shall then only have to follow his traces from Florence." Two days later Mr.Renfrew received a telegram from the head constable at Hicks Ford: "The two men with cart spent day here, 20th ult.

Were joined that morning by another man--negro says Pearson.

One man returned afternoon, Richmond.

Pearson and the other drove off in buggy.