being sent by long sea, and asking him to get it to his house. On the following morning, Saturday, he had a card from the same source, saying the cask had left, and on Monday, the 5th of April, he got the cask from the _Bullfinch_ at St. Katherine’s Docks, and took it home. Burnley’s list then read as follows:-- _Saturday, March 27._--Dinner at M. Boirac’s. Madame disappears. _Sunday, March 28._--Felix believed to cross to London. _Monday, March 29._--Felix writes to Dupierre, ordering statue. _Tuesday, March 30._--Order received by Dupierre. Statue despatched via Havre and Southampton. _Wednesday, March 31._--Cask claimed at Waterloo, apparently by Felix. _Thursday, April 1._--Cask sent from Charing Cross. Cask met at Gare du Nord. Cask delivered at rue Cardinet goods station for despatch to London. _Friday, April 2._--Felix receives Le Gautier’s letter. _Saturday, April 3._--Felix receives Le Gautier’s card. _Monday, April 5._--Felix meets cask at docks. Some other points he added below, which did not fall into the chronological scheme. 1. The typescript letter produced by Felix purporting to be from Le Gautier about the lottery, the bet, and the test with the cask, and the typescript slip in the cask about the return of a £50 loan, were done by the same machine, on the same paper. 2. The letter from Felix to Dupierre, ordering the statue was written on the same paper as the above, pointing to a common origin for the three. Pleased with the progress he had made, Burnley left his seat under the tree and strolled back to his hotel in the rue Castiglione to write his daily report to Scotland Yard. CHAPTER XVII A COUNCIL OF WAR At nine that evening, Inspector Burnley knocked at the door of the Chief’s room in the Sûreté. Lefarge was already there, and, as Burnley sat down, M. Chauvet said:-- ‘Lefarge is just going to tell his adventures. Now, Lefarge, if you please.’