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heard the formal evidence of Miss Tandy and the police and their surgeon, and Wedgwood went away to think things over. He, of course, knew more than he had so far divulged; in his opinion his knowledge of whatever it was that lay behind the word Mortover, and his discovery of the loose diamond, had best be kept back until he knew more, heard more. But during the next two days Wedgwood heard nothing that was new. The newspapers made much of the Handel Street mystery, but none of their readers came forward to help. Then, when Wedgwood was cudgelling his brains in an effort to see a gleam of light, information came to him from a source which he could only regard as of considerable importance. There walked into Hunter Street police-station on the third evening after the inquest a sharp-eyed, all-alive youth who, after a good deal of cautious inspection of his surroundings and a great many guarded questions as to secrecy and confidence, intimated to Wedgwood that if they two were alone and if anything he said was to be treated as of strict privacy, he could tell something that the detective would doubtless be interested to hear. Wedgwood gave his visitor satisfactory assurances and conducted him to a private room and a comfortable chair;