I cannot tell you how grateful I am to you for all you have done. I may say that Harry joins me in this, for he feels that if it had not been for your valuable assistance in this dreadful business, we should never have been united.

Again with all our thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Violet Arnell.

P.S.—We get married on Tuesday next.

4. Letter from Moses Moss to Inspector Shelley.

Dear Inspector Shelley,

Mr. Fairhurst tells me that you think the murderer of Professor Arnell was a man to whom I owed money. He also tells me that he was a criminal who had previously been in the hands of the police—a man, I understand, called Wallace. But I assure you that I have never known anyone called Wallace, not to mention owing him money. Could you explain this to me, or is the secret too deep and too official, and all that sort of thing?

Yours faithfully,

Moses Moss.

5. Letter from Inspector Shelley to Moses Moss.

Dear Mr. Moss,

I can’t understand how you didn’t tumble to all this without my having to tell you. Mr. Wallace, who had been in our hands before over a little matter of a cheque that was wrongly signed, and who had, in the last few years, been making a pretty little income by blackmail, was also a money-lender. He had many of the younger “smart set” in his clutches, and his money-lending activities gave him a very useful jumping-off ground for his blackmail plots.

Need I say more? Oh, I suppose I must give you the name under which he carried on his business. It was Victor Isaacs, and he had an office in Ludgate Hill. The funny thing is that at one stage I suspected you, and, in making enquiries into your financial status (if I may thus refer to what is, I suppose, a pretty delicate matter), I actually visited Isaacs’s office. But he was out, and I saw a clerk. At that very moment Isaacs was kidnapping Miss Arnell. Still, least said, soonest mended, all’s well that ends well, and so on. Good luck to you!

Yours,

Henry Shelley.

6. Telegram from Inspector Shelley to
Mr. and Mrs. Baker, honeymooning in Cornwall.

Bless you Violet. Bless you Harry. From your fairy godmother.

7. Retort of Miss Sarah Fairhurst when Mr. Henry Fairhurst told her the truth about the murder.

Fiddlesticks!

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