John Dwerrihouse had absconded three months ago–and I had seen him only a few hours back! John Dwerrihouse had embezzled seventy-five thousand pounds ofthe company’s money, yet told me that he carried that sum upon his person! Were ever facts so strangely incongruous, so difficult to reconcile? How should he have ventured again into the light of day? How dared he show himself along the line? Above all, what had he been doing throughout those mysterious three months of disappearance?