the police must surely have him within the next hour. For last night in Plymouth, as we know, he committed the bolder and more audacious crime for which the police were waiting; and we must admit he threw us all completely off his track, at first. That seems to have made him so reckless that he evidently thought he could safely correct the police and put them back on the track again. But he dared the one thing too much! He has overreached himself at last! And we have him!"
"How?" the American put forth his hand for the Englishman's newspaper. "How, Mr. Dunneston?" he demanded.
"Here it is!"
"This must be it, Mrs. Varris," Preston said quietly, as he glanced quickly down the column conspicuously headlined "LATER":—
"'The following remarkable communication, being concerned with the outrage of last night upon which we have commented above, has just been received by the police and the News in duplicate. The police inform us that the writ-
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