"S-s-s-sh!" breaks in the Doc, holdin' up a warnin' hand. "It is
coming. I am working outward from the primal fact toward the
objective. It is evolving, taking on definite proportions, assuming
shape."

"Well, what's the result?" demands the boss, hitchin' restless in his
chair.

"Patience, my dear Sir, patience," says the Doc soothin'. "The
introdeductive method cannot be hurried. It is an exact process,
requiring utmost concentration, until in the fullness of the moment----
Ah, I have it!"

"Eh?" says Old Hickory.

"One moment," says the Doc. "A trifling detail is still missing,--the
day of the week. To-day is Wednesday, is it not? Now, on what day of
last week did you receive a--er--similar token?"

Old Hickory finally reckons up that it must have been last Wednesday.

"And the week before?" goes on the Doc. "The bunch of flowers appeared
then on Wednesday, did it not?"

Yes, he was pretty sure it did.

"Ah!" says Bingstetter, settlin' back in his chair like it was all
over, "then the cumulative character is established. And such exact
recurrence cannot be due to chance. No, it has all been nicely