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"Now you're happy, I suppose," said the inspector when I had checked the bones and found them all present

"I should befor in this pond You weren't looking for the foot, were you?"

"I was looking for anything that Iuntil we have the whole body I shall go through all the streaht Water That I shall leave to the last, as it will be a case of dredging from a boat and isn't so likely as the smaller ponds Perhaps the head will be there; it's deeper than any of the others"

It now occurred to me that as I had learned all that I was likely to learn, which was little enough, I ht as well leave the inspector to pursue his researches unely I thanked him for his assistance and departed by the way I had co the shady path I speculated profoundly on the officer's proceedings My examination of the er had been removed either after death or shortly before, but more probably after Someone else had evidently arrived at the same conclusion, and had coer; for it was clear that that gentleer But as he searching for it here when the hand had been found at Sidcup? And what did he expect to learn fro particularly characteristic about a finger, or, at least, the bones of one; and the object of the present researches was to determine the identity of the person of whothat Inspector Badger was in possession of private information of some kind But what information could he have? And whence could he have obtained it? These were questions to which I could find no answer, and I was still fruitlessly revolving them when I arrived at the modest inn where the inquest was to be held, and where I proposed to fortify ly modest lunch as a preparation for my attendance at that inquiry