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"Hence, after carefully considering this part of the newspaper report, I came to the conclusion that the mysterious occurrence at Mr Hurst's house had only one reasonable explanation, naha him; and that that someone was Mr Jellicoe

"It rehter, though I cannot understand how any sane person can have seriously suspected either" (here Inspector Badger sible, for there was nothing to connect the of the scarab on their prehly suspicious under other circunificance by the fact that the scarab was found on a spot which had been passed a few minutes previously by the other suspected party, Hurst The finding of the scarab did, however, establish two iham had probably met with foul play, and that of the four persons present when it was found, one at least had had possession of the body As to which of the four was the one, the circumstances furnished only a hint, which was this: If the scarab had been purposely dropped, the most likely person to find it was the one who dropped it And the person who discovered it was Mr Jellicoe

"Following up this hint, if we ask ourselves whathim to be the murderer--the answer is obvious It would not be his policy to fix the crime on any particular person, but rather to set up a co evidence which would occupy the attention of investigators and divert it from himself

"Of course, if Hurst had been thethe scarab, so that the case against Mr Jellicoe was not conclusive; but the fact that it was he who found it was highly significant

"This coinal newspaper report describing the circumstances of the disappearance The conclusions that followed froof the scarab after his disappearance

"2 That he had probably been murdered by one orof the scarab on the premises occupied by two of them and accessible to the others

"3 That, of those four persons, one--Mr Jellicoe--was the last person as known to have been in the cothe murder; and was known to have delivered a dead body to the Museum subsequently to the disappearance