The Middle Temple Murder by J.S. Fletcher

That afternoon Spargo had another of his momentous interviews with his proprietor and his editor. The first result was that all three drove to the offices of the legal gentleman who catered for the _Watchman_ when it wanted any law, and that things were put in shape for an immediate application to the Home Office for permission to open the Chamberlayne grave at Market Milcaster; the second was that on the following morning there appeared in the _Watchman_ a notice which set half the mouths of London a-watering. That notice; penned by Spargo, ran as follows: -

"ONE THOUSAND POUNDS REWARD.