CHAPTER 9"Well, I have ascertained one thing for certain," Stoddart exclaimed as the train steamed out of St. Pancras. He had just arrived on the platform at the last minute and managed to spring into the compartment where Harbord was impatiently awaiting him. "How did you manage to get the carriage to yourself, Alfred?"
"Tipped the guard pretty extensively," Harbord answered laconically. "I knew it would be money well laid out."
Stoddart nodded.
"May save time when we get to Derby. I have interviewed Messrs. Usher & Snell. I had some difficulty in getting what I wanted from them. Began to sympathize with the dentists before I had finished. But at last they caved in and I became fulsomely anxious to give me all the information I wanted. Saunderson was a partner in the firm, though his n
