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window haSp not beng opened from the
outside said Inspector Briggs gloom
lily.
MY dear SIR said Detective Cor
inge, your man need not have put
himself to the Inconvenience of dropping
on of IA window i'll the dead of the
night. He could have walked down
stairs. taken the money, murdered the
lady, locked his door, and climbed up
into his room i'll some way or by some
means which we haven't yet discover
\ ed"
"Of curse he could" said the in
spector. my mind was SO much occu-
pied with my original theory that l
couldn't get the proper lay of the mat
ter. You have hit the nail on the head, l
expect. My thanks to You"
Don't thank me, please. Steinworth
neither dropped out of his window nor
climbed up to it from below. If he has
any OF the proper criminal instincts, he
would have known that a trick so easy
to be found out was no use for his pur-
poses. He must have been aware that the
locked door in itself would never have
WILL StLolS SltuSh. llt uluSt nave Dteu
certain that the window trick could be
proved to have been impracticable."
Then you also suspect it was Stein
worth?'
II can't afford to have suspicious. I
have none. Suspicious are like accom-
mediation bills-kite flying, as they call
it in the city and elsewhere-mighty
IlnpQr0pS thInCS RI mt rn1r t, T
try to go for certainties-not the morals
OF h betting man, but sound cash trans
actions. Up to the present I have an
open mind on the whole case. I know
too little of Steinworth and his ways.
For aught l can tell he may be a model
of all the virtues"
lyon know rs much as I know now"
every well. But granting he was suf-
fciently cornered to contemplate the
theft, l don't think you have hit the
nail on the head. The young man must
be a very ldlOtic sort Of a creature, or he
would think twice before climbing up
the side Of h house, rs if he We're prac-
ticing for the trapeze business-a house,
too, situated in a narrow road with a
iaring gas lamp right in front of his
window and the prospect of the patrol
catching him in midair. If he stole the
money, he is no fool, and whether he
stole the money by design and killed the
lady by accident, or whether he did
neither, he eve left the house last night
except he left it by way of the hall door.
Then he is a completely innocent
man, that's all, and I'd best drop him.
Don't give way to temper, inspect
or"
"Steinworth, from the inside, could
not lock himself into his room. That is,
l think, perfectly impossible"
Granted. l have examined the lock,
and so far l am compelled to agree with
you
Neither could he have been helped
by Vickery. At any rate, these two are
at daggers drawn and are not likely to
have entered into a conspiracy"
Then In your w mind you have
now practically disposed of the two
dodgers. Neither could have locked him
self into his ROOM
Not without aid from the outside,
n If no Il came in through the par
lor window last night-there are no
signs OF any other part Of the house nav
ing been broken into-we are reduced to
Miss Rodney"
"And DR.. Leclerc,' added Goringe.
and DR.. Lcclerc."
Now, let Us start with him. What's
IS record:"
Very dickey, l must allow. He's a
id young man. Ee wasn't unknown
d me III his student time, when | was
.tatloned at Whitechapel. He was as
"lld as ID young colt, but that's moth
ing. However, having as one would sup
pose owl his wild oats down east, he
starts a job here which doesn't look very
promising for d young medical practi-
TONER"
II have heard Of what you are refer
ring to, though l know nothing of the
inside of the case. From the outside it
doesn't look really very awful, but
that's nothing either"
He freely admits he was on the
point OF clearing out Of the country, and
that he had all arrangements made to
fly this very day, leaving his troubles
behind him"
THAT doesn't look we'll for him, to
Eay the least of it. He must be a bit
bewildered by the state Of affairs here
so make SO foolish an admission"
Right down crazy he looked today"
Every well Put all romance out CT
the question and out Of your head. Don't
mind blushing if you're given that way.
Miss Rodney is an uncommonly pretty
girl To mix her or her lover up with a
foul crime like this would seem to you
too awful
Nothing would seem too awful" in
terrupted Inspector Briggs testify, "if l
felt sure l could prove it."
"There, Well not quarrel. Now
wouldn't it be ever SO much a simpler
story if ! We're to tell you that q young
medical practitioner, facing ruin for the
want Of a little Of the ready, accustomed
to handling chloroform (which we'll
take it a young cockney bank clerk isn't),
thought to forestall matters a bit? He
was going TO marry the niece, the only
surviving relative, it seems, of the dead