"Yours in good works, _Private Henry, the Salvationist_.

"_P.S._ (in haste).--I may as well inform you that no crib is really uncrackable, though the Cyrus J. Coy Co.'s Safe Deposit on West 24th Street, N.Y., comes nearest the kernel. And even that I could work to the bare rock if I took hold of the job with both hands--that is to say I could have done in my sinful days. As for you, I should recommend you to change your T.A. to 'Peanut.'

"_U.K.G."_

"There sounds a streak of the old Adam in that postscript, Mr.

Carlyle," whispered Inspector Beedel, who had just arrived in time to hear the letter read.