All these little details, coupled with the incident of the bag, seemed to me very significant, and I was forced to the conclusion that there was some mystery in connection with Mrs. Blanche Stanley, as she called herself, that was worth solving. It was certainly a suspicious circumstance that she should have gone to the station to claim a bag that had been lying there over twelve months. It was also suspicious that the bag should have been placed in the left-luggage office on Sunday the thirteenth, that is, the day of the robbery; suspicious also was the fact that she should take the bag to another house, instead of to the one she was living in. Then again, there was some mystery about Jacob Johnson, the man who received the bag from her. So far as I could ascertain he was not in any emplo
