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"Did you look in those rooms when you searched the house?"

"No"

"Have you looked in them since?"

"I have been in the lumber-room since, but not in the other It is always kept locked"

At this point an o became apparent in his lordship's eyelids, but these symptoms passed off when Mr Heath sat down and indicated that he had no further questions to ask

Miss Dobbs once more prepared to step down from the witness-box, when Mr Loram shot up like a jack-in-the-box

"You havethe scarab which Mr Bellinghauard You say that he was not wearing it when he came to Mr Hurst's house on the twenty-third of November, nineteen hundred and two Are you quite sure of that?"

"Quite sure"

"I must ask you to be very careful in your statehly i frouard?"

"Yes, I do"

"Did you notice the watch-guard particularly?"

"No, not particularly"

"Then what makes you so sure that the scarab was not attached to it?"

"It couldn't have been"