Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-01

There was no avai.aDie winGow;
 used the string. as you say. My poor little cunning must seem very trans parent to you, I fear. How, to begin
 with, could you possibly know that the cameo was forgery? Did you ever see itT
 "Never. And if I had seen 1t I fear
 should never have been able to ex- press an opinion on it; I'm not con. noisseur. As matter of fact, didn't know that the thing was a forgery In the first place; what knew in the first place was that it was you aho had broken into the house. It was from that that arrived at the conclu- sion, after certain amount of thought, that the cameo must have been forged. Gain was out of the question. You, beyond all men, could never sell the Stanway cameo again. and, besides, you had paid back Lord Stanway's money. I knew enough of your repu- tation to know that you would never incur the scandal of great theft at your place for the sake of getting the cameo for yourself, when you might have kept 1t in the beginning with no trouble and mystery. Consequently had to, look for another motive, and at first another motive seemed an impos- sibility. Why should you wish to take all this trouble to lose f5.0OO? You had nothing to gain; perhaps you had something to save-your professional reputation, for instance. Looking at It so, 1t was plain that you were SUD- pressing the cameo-burking it-since once taken, as you had taken 1t, 1t could never come to light again. That suggested the solution of the mystery at once--you had discovered after the sale that the cameo was not genuine
 "Yes, yes, see. But you say you began with the knowledge that broke into the place myself. How did you know that7 cannot imagine trace"-
 My dear sir. you left traces every where. In the first place. 1t struck me as curious before I came here that you had sent of that check for f5,000 to Lord Stanway an hour or so after the robbery was discovered. It looked so much as though you were sure of the cameo never coming back and were in a hurry to avert suspicion.
 "When came here saw suspicious indications in many directions. but the conclusive piece of evidence was that old hat hanging below the trapdoor."
 But I never touched it. assure you. Mir. Hewitt, I never touched the hat-haven't touched it for months''-
 "of course. If you had touched 1t. might never have got the clew. But we'll deal with the hat presently. That wasn't what struck me at first. The trapdoor first took my attention. Consider. now: Here was a trapdoor most insecurely hung on external hinges. The burglar had a screw driver, for he took off the door lock below with 1t. Why. then. didn't he take this trap off by the hinges instead of making a noise and taking longer time and trouble to burst the bolt from its fasteningsi And why. if be were q stranger. was he able to plant his Jimmy from the outside just opposite the interior bolti There was only one mark on the frame. and that precisely in the proper place.
 "After that I saw the leather case. It had not been thrown away or some corner would have shown signs of the fall It had been put down carefully where 1t was found These things. however. were of small importance compared with thc hat lie hat. as you know. was exceedingly thick with dust. the accumuIation of months. But on the top side. presented toward tbe trapdoor. were q score or SO of rain- drop marks That was all They were new marks. for there was no dust over them. They had merely had time to dry and cake the dust they had fallen on Now. there had been 10 rain since . sharp shower just after : o'clock last night. as the police told me At that time you. by your own statement. were in the place. Yo1 left ct 8 and the rain vas su orrr at ten