"After that, I think, we can reconstruct the whole plot. There's one
foundation-stone that's missing," he added, thoughtfully. "I wonder if
Miss Vaughan uses a blotting-book? It all depends upon that!"
"A blotting-book?" I echoed. "But I don't see...."
He shook himself out of his thoughts with a little laugh.
"Not now, Lester. It's time we were in bed. Look, there's the sun!"
and he led the way into the house. "I'll have you called at nine," he
added, as he bade me good-night at my door.
CHAPTER XXVI
THE MYSTERY CLEARS
Godfrey's powers of recuperation have astonished me more than once,
and never more so than when I found him at the breakfast-table, as
fresh and rosy as though he had had a full night's sleep. But even I
felt better by the time the meal was over. It is wonderful what a cup
of coffee can do for a man!
"I 'phoned a message to Swain, as soon as I was up," Godfrey said,
"telling him, in your name, that we had the evidence to clear him, and
that Miss Vaughan was safe."
"I must go down to him," I said, "and start proceedings to set him
free. I'll get Simmonds to go with me before Goldberger, and then
before the magistrate.
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