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It was only natural that Blinn should carry out his idea of calling upon Inspector Dent and informing the latter as to the letter in the press copy book of Douglas & Co. He was not particularly anxious to do this, because, according to his light, he was a fairly decent little man, who, however, was not in the least likely to take any personal risk. Therefore, as soon as he conveniently could, he waited upon Dent with the letter book in his possession, and, without comment, laid the information before him.
"You understand," he said, "that I have got no feeling against Mr. Macrae. He never did me any harm personally, and I don't want to injure him. But with this information in my possession, I feel that I must come and tell you all about it."