Crossword-Solution: BURNAM 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The owner replied, "I will sell to no man for that amount." Nothing more was said on the subject, and the colored man purchased a few pounds of bacon of Burnam and left for home.

GRYCE DISCOVERS MISS AMELIA 55 VIII.--THE MISSES VAN BURNAM 68 IX.--DEVELOPMENTS 77 X.--IMPORTANT EVIDENCE 88 XI.--THE ORDER CLERK 98 XII.--THE KEYS 114 XIII.--HOWARD VAN BURNAM 126 XIV.--A SERIOUS ADMISSION 141 XV.--A RELUCTANT WITNESS 155 _BOOK II._ THE WINDINGS OF A LABYRINTH.

Van Burnam's eldest son Franklin, and the lady some relative of the family; though why this, its most punctilious member, should bring a guest at so late an hour into a house devoid of everything necessary to make the least exacting visitor comfortable, was a mystery that I retired to bed to meditate upon.

The young woman was not with him, and as I realized that he had left her behind him in the great, empty house, without apparent light and certainly without any companion, I began to question if this was like Franklin Van Burnam.

But I did nothing till noon, when going into my rear garden and observing that the back windows of the Van Burnam house were as closely shuttered as the front, I became so anxious that I stopped the next policeman I saw going by, and telling him my suspicions, urged him to ring the bell.