Chapter 5

With this encouraging comment, he opened the glass door of the book-case, and reaching down the ledger, laid it on the desk-like slope of the bureau. “It is a poor chance,” said he, opening the ledger at the index, “but some of these people may be able to give us a hint where to look for Mr. Luttrell, and it is worth while to know what sort of business he did.” He ran his finger down the list of names and had just turned to the account of one of the customers when we were startled by a loud click from the direction…