THE ANONYMOUS LETTER Within a week of that night Brereton was able to sum things up, to take stock, to put clearly before himself the position of affairs as they related to his mysterious client.

They had by that time come to a clear issue: a straight course lay ahead with its ultimate stages veiled in obscurity.

Harborough had again been brought up before the Highmarket magistrates, had stubbornly refused to give any definite information about his exact doings on the night of Kitely's murder, and had been duly committed for trial on the capital charge.

On the same day the coroner, after holding an inquest extending over two sittings, had similarly committed him.

There was now nothing to do but to wait until the case came on at Norcaster Assizes.