Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-06

54 2 G < x j. < sftf Nothing was to be seen there but the marks left by the removal of its base from the blackened boards.
 Disguised with myself if not with this object of my present disappotnt- ment, left that portion of the room in which it stood and crossed to where I had found the little table on the night of Mrs. Jeffrey's death. It was no longer there It had been set back against the wall, where 1t properly be- 1onged, and the candeiabrum removed. Nor was the kitchen chair any longer to be seen near the bookshelves. This fact, small as 1t was, caused me an in- stant of chagrin. I had intended to look again at the book which I had ex- amined with such unsatisfactory re suits the time before. A glance showed me that this book had been pushed back level with the others. But re- membered its title, and had the means of reaching 1t been at hand I should certainly have stolen another peep at it.
 Upstairs found the same signs of police interference The shutter had been fastened in the southwest room and the bouquet and wrap taken away from the bed. The handkerchief also was missing from the mantel where had left 1t, and when opened the clos- ct door 1t was to find the floor bare and the second candelabrum and candle re. moved.
 "All gone,' thought Teach and ev- cry clew."
 But was mistakeni Tn another mo- ment came upon the minute filings had before observed scattered over a small stand. Concluding from this that they had been passed ovey by Dur bin and his associates as valueless, I S7aS:5t them, together with the dust in which they lay, into an old envelope I happily found in my pocket. Then I crossed to the mantel and made clsse inspection of it's now empty shelf. The scratches which had made there were visible enough, but the impressions for which they stood had vanished in the handling which everything in the house had undergone. Regarding with great thankfulness the result of my own foresight I made haste to leave the room. then proceeded to take my first steps in the ticklish experiment. by which hoped to determine wheth- CT Uncle David had had any share in the fatal business which had rendered the two rooms I had just visited so memorable.
 First satisfying myself by a peep through the front drawing room win dow that he was positively at watch behind the vines, went directly to the kitchen, procured chair and carried it into the library, where put it to use that to an onlooker's eye would have appeared very peculiar. Planting it squarely on the hearthstone not with out some secret perturbation as tc what the results might be to myself mounted it and took down the en- graving which have already described as hanging over this mantelpiece.
 Setting it on end against one of the jambs of the fireplace, mounted the chair once more and carefully sifted over the high shelf the contents of little package which had brought with me for this purpose.
 Then, leaving the chair where it was, I betook myself out of the front door, ostentatiously stopping to lock it and to put the key in my pocket.
 Crossing immediately to MT. Moore's side of the street, encountered him, as I had expected to do, at his own gateway.
 Well, what now?' he inquired, with the same exaggerated courtesy I had