CHAPTER XVII

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13483, 24 July 1907, Page 6

CHAPTER XVII

A DIIAMATIC ENTRANCE.

It was all so complicated that Cathcart had to think it over ior a moment.

'•1 sco," he said. "The letter was an after-thought— after Powell was legally dead, in fact." "Just so; Powell had written that letter, and so ho couiun't l>o dead. The first thing Mr. Syrett notieetl was the peculiarity of that paper. With a groat deal of trouble we found the maker of that paper, with what result you know-." '• But why not have gone further?" Catheai-t urged. ' ! Why nol have arrested Powell and Mostyn for conspiracy, and cleared me that way?"

" You an 1 going to ho olrarod right enough," Ronton said cheerfully. "If I had done that I should have lost money over the ' Lone- Star.' "

"That is lost already," said Cathcart.

(To be continued.)