"Anything in it ?" "I haven't looked," said Dick, becoming serious, too, and inwardly anathematising the public press.
"May as well," said Heathcote.
"Perhaps there'll be something about the All England Tennis Cup in it," said Coote.
Dick opened the paper, and his jaw dropped at the first paragraph which met his eye.
"Well," said Heathcote, reflecting his friend's consternation in his own looks, "whatever is it ?" "Has Lawshaw won it, or Renford ?" inquired Coote.
Dick passed the paper to Georgie, who read as follows:-- *The mysterious disappearance of a Templeton boat* .-- The boatman Thomas White was arrested yesterday at Glistow, and will be charged before the magistrates on Saturday with fraudulently pawning the boat _Martha_, knowing the same to be only partially his own property.

The case is attracting much interest in the town.

No news has yet reached us of the missing boat, but we hear on good authority that circumstances have come to light pointing to White himself as the thief, and we believe evidence to this effect will be offered at Saturday's examination.

The police are reticent on the subject.
"What was the score of sets ?" asked Coote, as Heathcote put down the paper.
The latter replied by handing the paper to the questioner and pointing to the fatal paragraph.
Coote read it in great bewilderment.

Of course he knew all about Tom White's row and the missing _Martha_.