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"Assuument, that Hurst did murder him and that the body was concealed in the study at the time the search was made How could it have been disposed of? If you had been in Hurst's place, hoould you have gone to work?"

Thorndyke sstatement," said he, "delivered in the presence of a witness too But, as aa priori; we should have to reconstruct a purely iinary situation, the circumstances of which are unknown to us, and we should al What we may fairly assume is that no reasonable person, no matter how iest Murder is usually a crime of impulse, and the murderer a person of feeble self-control Such persons are ements for the disposal of the bodies of their victims Even the cold-blooded perpetrators of the most carefully planned murders appear, as I have said, to break down at this point The al rid of a human body is not appreciated until the murderer suddenly finds hiesting, the choice would seem to lie between burial on the prements; and either method would be pretty certain to lead to discovery"

"As illustrated by the rehah we could hardly i a watercress-bed as a hiding-place"

"No That was certainly an error of judg while you were talking to Bellingha the possibility of those being the bones of his brother, you er of the left hand I am sure you didn't overlook it, but isn't it a point of some importance?"

"As to identification? Under the present circu who had lost that finger it would, of course, be an iain, if there were any evidence that the finger had been rehly important But there is no such evidence It may have been cut off after death, and there is where the real significance of its absence lies"