Chapter 6

Three days later, when the boy’s sister landed, a telegram awaited her to say that her only brother had been drowned off Tiger Island by the capsizing of his sailboat. NUMBER TWO _The Adventure of the Museum_ I That morning the Curator of the Division of Inscriptions arrived at the Museum at about ten o’clock, as usual. In the anteroom his secretary rose from her typewriter, and handed him a visiting card. And at the same time be became aware of a slender girl in mourning seated on a sofa in th…