TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. 1876. [All rights of Translation and Reproduction are reserved.] 281 IS HE THE MAN? THE HOUSEKEEPER'S STORY. (Continued.) ས. MIGHT hope now that the mystery which had puzzled everybody for the last five months was about to be solved, and all the trouble and suspicion it had brought melt into thin air. It was not to be supposed that the man employed by Colonel Kilmain, after promising to write only in the event of utter failure or complete success, would, after four months of patient inquiry, during which he would in all probability have met with several men sufficiently like Mr. Ransome to put him on his guard against being duped by a passable resemblance, commit 1 VOL. III. |