Cave_, as you
see--that is also typewritten."
Miss Penkridge picked up the envelope as Mr. Cave tossed it across the
table. She appeared to examine it carefully, but suddenly she turned to
Mr. Carless.
"There _is_ a clue in these things!" she exclaimed. "A plain clue! One
that's plain enough to me, anyway. I could follow it up. I don't know
whether you gentlemen can."
Mr. Carless, who had, up to that point, treated Miss Penkridge with
good-humoured condescension, turned sharply upon her.
"What do you mean, ma'am?" he asked. "You really see something in--in a
typewritten letter?"
"A great deal!" answered Miss Penkridge. "And in the stationery on
which it's typed, and in the envelope in which it's inclosed. Now look
here: This letter has been typed on a half-sheet of notepaper. Hold
the half-sheet up to the light--what do you see? One half of the name
and address of the stationer who supplied it, in watermark. What is
that one half?"
Mr. Carless held the paper to the light and saw on the top line, ...
"_sforth,"_ on the middle line, ... "_nd Stationer_" and, ... "_n Hill_"
on the bottom line.
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