intelligence in that paper; but what it was, I, of course, cannot say. I
have looked everywhere for a clue and all in vain. No sooner were the
telegrams dispatched than the three or four men here, whom Mr. Fenwick
calls his clerks, gathered all his papers and things together and sent
them off by express vans. Mr. Fenwick told me that everything was going
to the place that he had taken at Canterbury, but I don't believe that,
because none of the boxes were labelled. Anyway, they have all gone, and
I am instructed to remain here until I hear from Mr. Fenwick again."

Venner began to understand; in the light of his superior knowledge it was
plain to him that these men had been interrupted in some work, and that
they feared the grip of the law. He expressed a wish to see the paper
which had been the cause of all the trouble. The news-sheet lay on the
floor where Fenwick had thrown it, and Venner took it up in his hands.

"This has not been disturbed?" he asked.

"No," Vera replied. "I thought it best not to. I have looked at both
sides of the paper myself, but I have not turned over a leaf. You see,
it must have been on one side or another of this sheet that the
disturbing news appeared, and that is why I have not looked further.
Perhaps you will be able to pick out the particular paragraph? There is
plenty of time."

Very carefully Venner scanned the columns of the paper. He came at length
to something that seemed to him to bear upon the sudden change of plans
which appeared to have been forced upon Fenwick. The paragraph in
question was not a long one, and emanated from the New York correspondent
of the _Daily Herald_.