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Fro but the hand-print

on the newel-post and the opened trunk Haggerty returned to the

hts except that on the desk, and sat down

on a rug so as not to disturb the dust on the chairs The erty, would come back on the

morrow He was anxious to compare the thumb-print with the one he had

in his collection

For what had the erty dearly wanted to

believe that the intruder was the one man he desired in his net; but he

refused to listen to the insidious whisperings; he must have proof,

positive, absolute, incontestable If it was Crawford's ood to be true; and he did not care to court ultimate

disappointment

Proof, proof; but where? Why had the man not returned the clothes to

the trunk and shut it? What had alar else

indicated the ut froerty rose and went over to theHe

picked up a bunch of keys, thirty or forty in all, on a ring, weighing

a good pound The detective touched the throbbing bump and sensed a

hed the keys on his