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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1614848" data-attributes="member: 4144">The constable looks briefly to Longtree.  When he nods, the patrolman slides the book over to where Diggory stands.The book is a diary, belonging to Horatio Cartwright.  Entries are mundane and tedious, noting a bank transaction here, a seduction there, and so on inanely for many pages.  The entry marked '24 June' details the death of Horatio's father, Elias Cartwright, in a cab accident.  Thereafter, the entries become more interesting.  On 28 June - the day of Elias' funeral and Jeremiah Oldacre's death - Horatio says that after the ceremony, he returned to the house and began going through his father's things.  He finds a package addressed to himself, and within is a smaller package marked For Use at the Black Lion Hotel, Truro, a letter to Horatio, and a letter to Oldacre - the one Cartwright had on the train.  Horatio has folded and slipped in between the pages the letter addressed to him.</blockquote>