band's papers for any trace of
antecedent complicationsof entanglements or obligations unknown to her
that might throw a faint ray into the darkness. But if any such had existed
in the background of Boyne's lifethey had disappeared as completely as
the slip of paper on which the visitor had written his name. There
remained no possible thread of guidance except--if it were indeed an
exception--the letter which Boyne had apparently been in the act of
writing when he received his mysterious summons. That letterread and
reread by his wifeand submitted by her to the policeyielded little
enough for conjecture to feed on.
I have just heard of Elwell's deathand while I suppose there is now
no farther risk of troubleit might be safer--
That was all. The "risk of
trouble" was easily explained by the newspaper clipping which had
apprised Mary of the suit brought against her husband by one of his
associates in the Blue Star enterprise. The only new information conveyed
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in the letter was the fact of its showing Boynewhen he wrote itto be still
apprehensive of the results of the suitthough he had assured his wife that
it had been withdrawnand though the letter itself declared that the
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