Then I heard of the new Marconi station up the coast, and worked at wireless for two weeks, and made twenty dollars, before they sacked me for not being able to send a message out to a Messina fruit-steamer, in Italian.

Then I chanced on the job of doctoring up a generator on an American yacht down here in the bay." "Yes, yes--I know how hard it is!" "But listen! When I was on board at work I overheard a Supreme Court judge and a special agent from the Central Office in New York and two English detectives talking over the loss of certain securities.

And those securities belong to Richard Penfield!" He knew that she had started, at the sound of that name.
"Penfield!" she gasped.

"What of him ?" "When the district-attorney's men raided Penfield's New York gambling club, one of Penfield's new men got away with all his papers.

They had been withdrawn from the Fifth Avenue Safe Deposit Company, for they were mostly cheques and negotiable securities, worth about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.