“No one could have known beforehand that she was going to be in that house⁠—much less that particular room.”

“That’s so,” admitted Julius. “Then one of the nurses was a crook and listened at the door. How’s that?”

“I don’t see that it matters anyway,” said Tommy wearily. “He may have found out some months ago, and removed the papers, then⁠—No, by Jove, that won’t wash! They’d have been published at once.”

“Sure thing they would! No, someone’s got ahead of us today by an hour or so. But how they did it gets my goat.”

“I wish that chap Peel Edgerton had been with us,” said Tommy thoughtfully.

“Why?” Julius stared. “The mischief was done when we came.”