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My credentials being found satisfactory, the door was unlocked and I entered, acco reporters, whoeant su to usher s with intelligent but highly ee table and covered with a sheet, which the sergeant slowly turned back, watching my face intently as he did so to note the iine that he must have been somewhat disappointed by ested toy" The whole collection had been set out (by the police-surgeon, as the sergeant infor which I counted the them by the list hich Thorndyke had furnished h-bone," I re that this did not appear in the list

"Yes," said the sergeant; "that turned up yesterday evening in a big pond called Baldwin's Pond in the Sand-pit plain, near Little Monk Wood"

"Is that near here?" I asked

"In the forest up Loughton way," was the reply

I eant looked as if he was sorry he had eneral consideration of the bones before exa them in detail Their appearance would have been i, for they were just as they had been taken fro-places, and it was difficult to decide whether their reddish-yellow colour was an actual stain or due to a deposit on the surface In any case, as it affected the feature and made a note of it They bore numerous traces of their sojourn in the various ponds froavewhich they had been subed They were, of course, encrusted with mud, and little wisps of pond-weed stuck to theuest measure of ti To several of the bones, for instance, there adhered the dried egg-clusters of the coht shoulder-blade (the "infra-spinous fossa") was a group of the ave proof of a considerable period of submersion, and since they could not have been deposited on the bones until all the flesh had disappeared, they furnished evidence that some time--a month or two, at any rate--had elapsed since this had happened Incidentally, too, their distribution showed the position in which the bones had lain, and though this appeared to be of no i circumstances, I made careful notes of the situation of each adherent body, illustrating their position by rough sketches