The Chain of Gold Or In Crannied Rocks Author:Standish O'Grady Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ROHAR DISCOVERED. By Frank Fcrbisher. Had I been older and wiser I would at once have sought out a clever detective and put the whole affair ... more »into his hands. Of this I never thought, as I would have done had I ever come across detective literature, which did not flourish in those times. I went to an advertising agent, and bade him advertise in all the newspapers of the maritime counties and shires for two boys lost in the hurricane which blew in July, boys whose name began with an " F." I only advertised in English and Scotch and Welsh papers, for I said that if the boys were Irish, the writing would be in the Irish language. Though I knew a good deal then for a boy, in some respects I was singularlyignorant. At the same time I had a case made for my precious MS., lest it should be injured. The case was like a daguerrotype case ; we called photographs daguerrotypes then. To these advertisements, which were continued for weeks, I got many replies, one and all asking for money as the price of information. This I would have gladly given, but my aunt, though anything but worldly wise, perceived the true motive of these communications. My disappointment, as may be imagined, was extreme. Curiously enough, however, this mystery, which my guardian feared would quite rob me of sleep, had exactly the contrary effect. On the night of the day on which I got the letter I slept well, and every night after that slept well. From day to day my health, both physical and mental, improved. Disappointed in this clue, I turned to the other—the proper name of the place. I called on our family solicitor, and put to him shortly, for I did not much like him, the question, " If I know the name of a place, and do not know where it is, what steps should I take to discoverit ?" He s...« less