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"2 He ht have died by accident or disease, and his body failed to be identified This was eventhat he carried on his person abundantcards

"3 He er for the sake of his portable property This was highly improbable for the same reason: his body could hardly have failed to be identified

"These three explanations are e may call the outside explanations They touched none of the parties rounds; and to all of them there was one conclusive answer--the scarab which was found in Godfrey Bellinghaave my attention to the fourth explanation This was that theman had been made aith by one of the parties mentioned in the report But, since the reports mentioned three parties, it was evident that there was a choice of three hypotheses, nahahams; or (c) by Mr Jellicoe

"Now, I have constantly impressed on my pupils that the indispensable question that must be asked at the outset of such an inquiry as this is, 'When was theperson last undoubtedly seen or known to be alive?' That is the question that I askedthe newspaper report; and the ansas, that he was last certainly seen alive on the fourteenth of October, nineteen hundred and two, at 141 Queen Square, Bloomsbury Of the fact that he was alive at that time and place there could be no doubt whatever; for he was seen at the same moment by two persons, both of ere intimately acquainted with him, and one of whom, Doctor Norbury, was apparently a disinterested witness After that date he was never seen, alive or dead, by any person who knew him and was able to identify him It was stated that he had been seen on the twenty-third of Nove by the housemaid of Mr Hurst; but as this person was unacquainted with him, it was uncertain whether the person whoham

"Hence the disappearance dated, not from the twenty-third of November, as everyone seems to have assumed, but from the fourteenth of October; and the question was not, 'What becaham after he entered Mr Hurst's house?' but, 'What became of him after his interview in Queen Square?'

"But as soon as I had decided that that interview -point of the inquiry, aset of circumstances came into view It beca to ham, he had such an opportunity as seldo murderer