CHAPTER X.
LEAVING RIVERSBOROUGH.
The weeks passed by in Riversborough, and brought no satisfactory conclusion to the guarded investigations of the police.

A close search made among Acton's private papers produced no discovery.

His will was among them, leaving all he had to leave, which was not much, to Felix, the son of his friend and employer, Roland Sefton.

There was no memorandum or letter which could throw any light upon the transactions, or give any clew to what had been done with Mr.Clifford's securities.
Nor was the watch kept over the movements of the family more successful.
The police were certain that no letter was posted by any member of the household, which could be intended for the missing culprit.

Even Phebe Marlowe's correspondence was subject to their vigilance.