[Illustration: “AN’ WHICH IS THE HONOURABLE JINTLEMAN AS DO BE BURRNIN’ TO PRISINT ME WID A BIT O’ GOOLD?”] In none of the cases of investigation by Martin Hewitt which I have as yet recorded had I any direct and substantial personal interest. In the case I am about to set forth, however, I had some such interest, though legally, I fear, it amounted to no more than the cost of a smashed pane of glass. But the case in some ways was one of the most curious which came under my notice, and completely justified Hewitt’s oft repeated dictum that there was nothing, however romantic or apparently improbable, that had not happened at some time in London.…
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