"
"We'll run down to Fernborough for a day or two to say good-bye, if
there is time, and you can see your father about it."
At ten o'clock the next morning, Quincy entered the office of the
Isburn Detective Bureau.
"I have good news for you, Quincy," said Mary. "I have found out from
London that Macquay Hooker is a banker in Rome, and I have cabled
him, asking who the other two endorsers are. We should receive a
reply by noon at the latest."
A good half hour before noon a messenger boy came in and handed Mary
an envelope. She scanned the cablegram quickly, and handed it over to
Quincy. It read, "Tombini banker, Drake American consul, Palermo,
Sicily."
"You see," said Mary, with a smile, "matters are simplifying
themselves considerably. I shall cable now to Drake at Palermo, and
find out what I can about the original signer of the bill of
exchange. This is Wednesday. The Gallia sails from here to England on
Saturday. You had better engage passage, and make arrangements to go
then. Come back late this afternoon, and I will tell you what has
developed in the meantime."
After engaging a stateroom for Saturday, Quincy returned to
Cambridge, packed what things he needed for a couple of days, and
with Tom came back to Boston, intending to go to Fernborough on the
late train in the evening.
"The answer has just come," said Mary, when Quincy saw her later in
the day, "but, I am sorry it is not as satisfactory as I could wish.
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