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seeking the murderer He was at no pains to throw me off his track,

because he did not suspect that I was on it For weeksthe countess I had theured that

sooner or later Von der Herts would get in touch with her I was right

And when at last I saith my own eyes the man who must, beyond all

question, be Von der Herts, I was astounded, my dear Inspector, I was

overwhelmed"

"Yes?" said Bray

"I set to work then in earnest to connect hier marks in the captain's study were for some

reason destroyed, but I found others outside, in the dust on that

seldo,

I secured froht thu Next I went down into Fleet Street and luckily

et hold of the typewritten copy sent to the Mail bearing

those four es I noticed that in these the letter a was out

of alignet a letter written on a typewriter

belonging to ht, a renegade and waster well known to us as serving other

countries, caland My ent Street And finally, on a visit to the lodgings of this man who,

I was now certain, was Von der Herts, under the mattress of his bed I

found this knife"