We learned late on the following day that Henning had not appeared at the office. From that we assumed that he must have met his confederate in the evening, and, finding that he had not received the message sent, conceived that something was wrong, and made himself safe. The confederate, Hunt, however, made his appearance early next morning, but escaped.

What happened is best told in Plummer’s words when he called on Hewitt in the afternoon.

“I went round this morning,” he said, “as I said I would last night. I took a good man with me, and we got the dummy bonds that had been put in Bell’s box and popped ’em in the ventilator, where the real ones had been hidden. You see, we’d got nothing legal against Catherton Hunt as yet, but if we could only grab him with those dummy bonds on him it might help, with the other evidence we could scrape up (and especially if we could take Henning), to sustain a charge of conspiracy to steal. Well, he came so quick he was on us before we were quite ready. We’d got the dummies in their place, and I was in front of the door telling my man the likeliest corner to wait in, when suddenly up pops the lift right in front of me, with a gentleman in it — clean-shaven. I looked at h............