y entered
into his employer's mind, but when all efforts to trace him had
failed the jeweller became alarmed for the safety of his employe and
communicated with the police.

Now, as fortune would have it, the young Birmingham detective had been
sent up to London at this time and, calling at Scotland Yard, he had
put into his hands some copies of the document by which the police were
circulating the news of the traveller's disappearance, together with a
woodcut reproducing a photograph which had been taken some years before
and had willingly been surrendered to Mr. Whitehead by the traveller's
wife, who was naturally in great distress concerning him. It was
the general impression at the time that he had been decoyed away and
murdered for the sake of the valuable property he carried, which was
of such a nature that it might easily have been disposed of by the
criminal--the gold being melted down and the precious stones being
disposed of in the ordinary way of business. At Euston Station that
afternoon, on his way back to Birmingham, the provincial detective had
one fellow-traveller to whom, but for one singular little circumstance,
he would probably have paid no heed whatever. The fellow-traveller had
one article of luggage only, but he seemed to be unusually anxious about
it. It was a hat-box and when he had placed it on the rack overhead
he appeared to be unwilling to leave it out of sight for more than an
instant at a time. He arose a score of times to readjust it and when
he was not occupied in that way he kept a constant eye upon it. "I'm
no great Scripture reader," said the detective to me, in telling me
the story, "but when I was a kid my mother used to read the Bible to me
every day and one text came into my mind when I saw that cove so anxious
about his hat-box: 'Where the treasure is, there will the heart be
also.' It kept coming back into my mind and somehow I got to thinking
that if it had not been for certain things about him the man in
the carriage would have been very like the man whose portrait and
description I had just been looking at. The man described had features
of a marked Jewish cast and so had the man in the carriage, but the man
described had red hair, thick red eyebrows and a beard and moustache of
the same colour. The man in the carriage was clean shaved and his hair
and eyebrows were as black as a crow's back, but I had got the idea in
my mind and I couldn't get it out again, and when he turne