Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-21

| so hazardous and so difficult a feat. It is
my design to show you, first, that the thing
| might possibly have been accomplished;
but, secondly, and chiefly, wish to impress
upon your understanding the very extra
ordinary, the almost preternatural, char
acter Of that agility which could have ac-
complished it.
"You will say, no doubt using the LAM
guage of the law, that to make out my
case 1 should rather undervalue than in
sist upon a full estimation Of the activity
required in this matter. This may be the
practice in law, but it is not the usage of
reason. My ultimate object is only the
| truth. My immediate purpose is to lead
you to place in juxtaposition that very UNI
usual activity of which have just spoken,
with that very peculiar shrl Cor harsh)
and unequal voice, about whose nationality
no two persons could be found to agree.
and in whose utterance no Syllabification
could be detected
At these words vague and half formed
conception of the meaning of Dupin fitted
over my mind. I seemed to be upon the
verge Of comprehension without power to
comprehend-aS men, at times, find them
selves upon the brink Of remembrance,
without being able, in the end, to remem-
ber My friend went on with his discourse.
you will see,' he said, that I have
shifted the question from the mode Of
egress to that of ingress. 1t was my de-
sign to suggest that both were effected in
the same manner, at the same point. Let
us now revert to the interior of the room.
Let us survey the appearances here. The
drawers of the bureau, it is said, had been
rifed, although many articles of apparel
still remained within them. The conclu-
sion here is absurd. 1t is a mere guess-a
very silly one-and no more. How are we
to know that the articles found in the
drawers were not all these drawers had
originally contained. Madame LEspa-
naye and her daughter lived an exceedingly
retired life. saw no company, seldom went
out and had little use for numerous changes
of habiliment. Those found were at least
of good quality any likely to be pos
sessed by these ladies. If a thief had taken
he not take all? In word, why did he
abandon 1000 francs in gold to cucumber
himself with a bundle of linen? The gold
was abandoned. Nearly the whole sum
mentioned by Monsieur Mgnaud, the bank
er, was discovered, in bags. upon the floor.
! wish you, therefore, to discard from your
thoughts the laundering idea of motive en-
gendered in the brains of the police by that
portion of the evidence which speaks OF
money delivered at the door Of the house.
Condolences ten times remarkable as
this (the delivery Of the money, and murder
committed within three days upon the
party receiving it,, happen to all of US
every hour of our lives, without attracting
even momentary notice. Condolences, in
general. are great stumbling blocks in the
way of that class of thinkers who have
been educated to know nothing Of the the
DRY Of probabilities-that theory to which
the most glorious objects of human research
are indebted for the most glorious of illus
tration. In the present instance had the
gold been gone, the fact of its delivery three
days before would have formed something
more than coincidence. 1t would have been
corroborative of this idea of motive But.
under the real circumstances of the case,
this outrage we must also imagine the per-
petrator so vacillating an idiot as to have
abandoned his gold and his motive to-
gether. Concluded tomorrow