IN A JAIL
A taxi carried him to the office of the paper. The Editor had not arrived, but in anticipation of Helder's coming, the young reporter, Jackson, was waiting.
That cheerful journalist gave Helder a nod and a smile, and ushered him into a waiting-room.
"What has happened?" asked Helder, as soon as he was seated.
"I'm blessed if I know," confessed the other. He strode up and down with his hands in his pockets, frankly baffled.
"You know," he said, "that after Comstock Bell had gone, and Mrs Comstock Bell had made her appearance in so startling a fashion, the whole resources of the paper were employed to discover her whereabouts. Although we received a letter written by Comstock Bell and addressed to us from Lucerne, we know for certain that Comstock Bell has not stayed in tha
