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BY W-LK-E C-LL-NS
PROLOGUE
The following advertisement appeared in the “Times” of the 17th of June, 1845:—
WANTED.—A few young men for a light, genteel employment. Address J. W., P. O.
In the same paper, of same date, in another column:—
TO LET.—That commodious and elegant family mansion, No. 27 Limehouse Road, Pultneyville, will be rented low to a respectable tenant if applied for immediately, the family being about to remove to the Continent.
Under the local intelligence, in another column:—
MISSING.—An unknown elderly gentleman a week ago left his lodgings in the Kent Road, since which nothing has been heard of him. He left no trace of his identity except a portmanteau containing a couple of shirts marked “209, Ward.”
To find the connection between the mysterious disap
