The light of a lantern disclosed to their view the fleshless bones of a
human skeleton with clothing still wrapping its uncanny limbs.
They immediately left the scene and notified the proper authorities of
their ghastly find.
On closer examination, in the left breast pocket of the skeleton's coat,
there was found a flat, oblong packet of papers, cut through and through
in three places by a knife blade, and so completely soaked and clotted
with blood that it had become an almost indistinguishable mass.
With the aid of a microscope and the exercise of a little imagination
this much can be made out of the letter; at the top of the papers:
B--xa-- ----rip N-- 2--92.
QUERIES AND ANSWERS
[From _The Rolling Stone_, June 23, 1894.]
Can you inform me where I can buy an interest in a newspaper of some
kind? I have some money and would be glad to invest it in something of
the sort, if some one would allow me to put in my capital against his
experience.
COLLEGE GRADUATE.
Telegraph us your address at once, day message.
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