wasn't in ordinary handwriting. That would have shown much more.
However, we shall try our best with what we have here. What
impressed you about it?"

"Well," remarked Carton, "the thing that impressed me was that as
usual and as I fully expected, the trail leads right back to
protected vice and commercialized graft. This Little Montmartre is
one of the swellest of such resorts in the city, the legitimate
successor to the scores and hundreds of places which the
authorities and the vice investigators have closed recently. In
fact, Kennedy, I consider it more dangerous, because it is run, on
the surface at least, just like any of the first-class hotels.
There's no violation of law there, at least not openly."

Craig had continued to examine the letter closely. "So, you have
already investigated the Little Montmartre?" he queried, drawing
from his pocket a little strip of glass and laying it down
carefully over the letter.

"Indeed I have," returned the District Attorney, watching Kennedy
curiously. "It is a place with a very unsavoury reputation. And
yet I have been able to get nothing on it. They are so confounded
clever. There is never any outward violation of law; they adhere
strictly to the letter of the rule of outward decency."

Over the typewritten characters Kennedy had placed the strip of
glass and I could see that it was ruled into little oblongs, into
each of which one of the type of the typewritten sheet seemed to
fall. Apparently he had forgotten the contents of the letter in
his interest in the text itself. He held the paper up to the light