was anxious to examine a reported coal-mine which turned

that she was gathering up the revealing clues but in a

Then they were silent. The silence lengthened. The lamps

all the answers, all the arguments and all the proofs.

and other comforts. At Caylen, the most southern island,

them and was examining them minutely, held out his hand

who had appeared so suddenly in the very nick of time,

in view of the fateful day, the 12th of July, 1921. Doubtless

The people here live chiefly on shell-fish and potatoes.

had taken advantage of the confusion to slip into the caravan,