Newspaper cutting regarding Jeremiah Hayling

“Here is an advertisement which will interest you,” said he. “It appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this:
“Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten o’clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was dressed in —
etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled.”