a detective, why was he watching? There was indeed no reward offered whatsoever for his arrest. Perhaps he belonged to the wretched type of beings who do pride themselves on their public spirit-- men who wrote letters to the newspapers and interfered in <i>other</i> people's business. He might now well have wanted to show his public spirit by hand- ing him over to the police. The newspaper in his hand! Of course. He had read his description there, and identified him. Charles now found himself conjecturing how the man would set about carrying out his task of pub-