"You see," explained Bart, "the letter is a sort of confidential one. Reading between the lines, I assume that a certain Peter Pope, now express agent at Cardysville, and evidently recently appointed, is a relative of one of the officials of the company. Anyway, he has been running--or not running--things for a week. The inspector writes that the man has very little to do, for it is a small station, but that very little he appears to do very badly."