Chapter 13
THE TELEPHONE in his bedroom awoke Commissioner Herkomer from a restless sleep. He had not retired until two o'clock, and at the time of retiring he was no nearer the solution of the kidnapping mysteries than when Peter Perkins had first brought him the note signed by Burton Conybear. Samuel Balch, Waring's attorney, had been unable to give any information about .Waring that would explain the latter's apparent dealings with Conybear. True, Waring owned a bit of real estate, but he would hardly have mortgaged that without asking Balch's assistance in drawing the papers, and such assistance had not been asked.
Henderson, Conybear's private secretary, had not returned to Portsmouth, and could not be located in town. And there was no further news of Prendergast, Larned, Mikells an
