The Letter That Came by Post
"He's dead, I'm afraid," said Jim, at the end of half-an-hour's work on the still figure that lay on the floor of the study.
Stripped to his singlet, he had applied artificial respiration, but without effect. The man must have died a few seconds before they found him.
"Thorough!" said Welling, biting his lip thoughtfully, "very thorough and very quick. Searched to the skin, you notice."
The dead man's clothes had been torn open, so that his breast was exposed.
"That is where the mystery was hidden--fastened to his skin. It is an old dodge, which Marborne must have learnt in the course of his professional career."
Milligan returned from a search of the grounds, to report failure.
"We can do nothing till daylight, except warn the local police. Put a call t
