, 1922-12-07

you CANNOT MEAN THAT
DERNBURG PAsHA WAS MUIR
DERED BY a DEAD MANI
s'eur. we will look a little at the in
dicatory signs"
He paused.
There is always this disturbing
feature about circ1imstantlal evidence
the trick Of pointing in the direction
that one is going. II one has n con
c%lus!on. one will. find that the cir
cumstantlal evidence supports Il.
You have a theory. monsleur. that
this visitor was DernburG's assassin.
and consequently. - you. the lndi'
catory evidence supports that theory.
But, monsieur. l have the theory
that the visitor was not the ASSASSIN.
and I bid you observe how the inIi-
cRtory evidences viii turn themselves
about in order 20 support the theory
which I maintain. Take. for example,
those blood-droDs on the marble floor
Of the drawing room. In support
OF your theory, they have fallen by
hazard from the assRssin's knife in
his flight. and you would cite them
as confirmatory of your theory.
Now. monsieur. I would cite them
also as conflrmatory OF mine.
You VIII observe hat zach OF
these seven b,ood-dro3s has fallen on
a white square OF this checkerel
marble floor. There Is no droo Of
blood on a black square. Why. non
sieur. should these drops appear only
on the white squares? l consider
that fact with my theory in mind,
and I conclude that they 80 appear
because because the one who placed
them there wished them to be seen.
We cannot conceive that he would un
der:ake TO. create evidence against
himself. And 1t is beyond our con
ception OF coincidence that each OF
these seven biood-drops should. by &C
cident, have fallen precisely on a
white square when there was an
equal number of black square inter
vening. Therefore. monsieur. these
evidences did not come by chance;
they came by design"
He coptinued like one who ~recites
the details of a formula.
81 find my theory also confirmed
at a farther point. You explained t o
me. when I inquired. that h assas
sin. after fleeing through this draw
ing room into the walled garden. had
escaped by climbing orer the wall.
since the gate was nailed up and had
been so nailed up for a long time.
Now. monsieur, I caused this wall to
be examined. The whole OF the top
OF It is coated over with dust At no
point has any Of this dust been re-
moved consequently the assassin did
did not escape by climbing over the
wall. for If he IA undertaken to
climb the wall at n point. his body.
in that labor. would hive removed
the coating of dust. You see. mon
s!eur, I do not find your i~ndicatory
evidences designed to support your
theory. They seem rather conclu-
s!vely to establish my own"
He made a vague gesture as
though to dismiss the matter.
"And so. mnsieur. we find our
solves before the triangular hypo-
thesisl Did 1 murder Dernburg
Pasha, or did you, or was he, in fact,
murdered at alp
The Oriental looked a. the man in
a SORT OF wonder.
He was surely murdered" he
said.
The Project of Police spoke like
one in some reflection.
1T IS by no means certain"
mot certain" echoed the Envoy.
THE man is deadF'
"One may be dead without having
been m-rdered." replied the Project
OF PIce. 1T is possible hat the
hand that gave Dernburg Pasha his
fatal wound is no longer alive in this
world"
The Turkish Envoy made an ex
clamation Of surprise.
you cannot mean that Dernbure
Pasha was murdered by a deaf
MANI
Tho concluding installment Of thi'
adventure Of VI. JOnquelle will appeal
In our next issue.