The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-03-29

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gsee yeysa, then the great point raised
by the prosecution falls to the ground
Isn't that So It is her right-hand
finger which bears the ring"
Eyes, you are right; but the time?
The clock in the Elephants forehead?".
Instead of answering, Monk went
over to a little alarm. clock which stood
on the writing table.
He first set to work to move the
hands, carefully shielding the dial from
us then he signed to us to follow him,
and he led the way over to long mir
ror at the other end of the room. He
placed Clara and me in front of the
mirror, he himself standing behind US,
holding up the clock.
Look in the mirror now, and tell me
what the time is.
Twenty one minutes to six" an
swered Clara and at the same moment.
Now turn round and look at the
clock-well,swhat do you say now? 1t
is twenty-one minutes past six, isn't it r"
1t was now Cfara's and my turn to
make our deductions. You mean, then.
that. the picture is altogether fraud?
1t is just as if everything had been
turned about, SO that left becomes right
and right becomes wrong.
Il mean" answered Monk, briskly,
that the photograph itself is all right,
and the person who is in the photograph
is Evelina Reierson AT the moment
when she was photographed, she wore
feather on the left side Of her hat,
in her left hand she held the diamond,
and on the right hand she wore ring
The time was twenty-one minutes past
six.
But how"
I'll soon tell you. The whole secret
lies in the fact that the photograph zoos
taken from reflection IN a mivrori"
In a~mirror 7"
eyes, in mirror"
"You are right That explains, all r
Eyes, all; and even a little more
which, perhaps, you have not thought
Of Thank heaven the scales have fall
en- from my eyes, and / can see once
morep
"This is no time for Biblical Ian
guage, my dear Monk; let us hear what
you mean by even little more''
.You are right Well, we have got
SO far that we know the picture has
been taken in a mirror; but in what
mirror7"
swell, that is for you to find out
both Clara and have done our duty"
You certainly have; and | shall
manage the rest-at least | hope so.
On the wall just opposite the cupboard
in the museun-the one which appears
here in the photograph is, right
enough, a mirror, tolerably large one,
and it is in that mirror that the pho
tograph was taken"
But then, the person who took it
must have stood right beside Evelina,
and he could not very well have avoid
ed being included in the photograph"
1t was Clara who made this remark.
You are quite right Mrs Viller;
but he stood so much to one side that
he did not come within the frame of the
mirror. To prevent the frame from
showing in the photograph, he has
clipped it on both sides. That is why
the picture is SO narrow"
This is all very WELL" / felt com
PEELED TO remark, but there is one
thing which upsets the whole of your
fine theory. Is it at all likely that
Evelina would allow any one 10 stand
beside her and photograph her in the
mirror, while she was about TO steal
diamond, or, more correctly, would she
choose the moment to steal the dia-
mond while she was being photo
graphed?"
Eyes, it was just that point which l
found to be the most difficult little
while ago, when | was building up my
theory, SO to speak; but | have hap
PLY solved that question, and the solu- i
ton opens up "a still larger vista to us"
When you were building up your
theory, you say2 Do you mean those
seconds a little while ago, when you
stood with staring eyes, and mutter-
ing something about eating dust?'
1t is possible that / behaved rather
strangely" laughed Monk; and II
haven't an idea how long | was away
II Oil liilS WOTlu.s bul even II II was 1OT
only a few seconds, they were, at any
rate, more than sufficient to reveal to
me what had really taken place behind
the scenes, and which I, Until now, have
been quite deceived about Just listen
If you remember my description of the
little house in Tricks garden, of which
the museum was part, you Will re-
member that from the museum there is
door leading to the fire-proof room.
This door is just at the side of the
cupboard which we have referred to so
often. The only way in which one
could, by aid of the mirror, photo-
graph a person without being noticed in
front of the cupboard, would be by
standing inside the fre-proof room,
leaving the door of the museum ajar."
DO you mean that the Englishman
had been inside old Tricks fre-proof
room? The door of that surely
wouldn't be open?"
mo, it is strong iron door sof