Miss Hopewell orders her secretary to send this letter to Miss Victoria Winters, Collinswood, Collinsport, Maine--"Dear Victoria--I think you should know that shortly after our telephone conversation today, I received a visit from a man who said that he was a magazine writer, and finally admitted he was a private detective--oddly enough, his inquiry was almost the same as our phone conversation

--he was anxious to learn why you had been hired by the Collins family, who recommended you, and the rest of it--the detective's name was Wilbur Strake--do you know this man, or have you any idea who hired him to learn this facts about you?"