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"I asked you if you had a pocket-flash about you!" answered Bailey indignantly "If you call a question like that violence--" He seemed about to restrain the Doctor by physical force

Miss Cornelia quelled the teapot-te the front door key fro it back on the table She turned to Doctor Wells

"You see, Doctor Wells," she explained, "just a ht was thrown on thoseshades"

The Doctor laughed with a certain relief

"Why, that was probably the searchlight from my car!" he said "I noticed as I drove up that it fell directly on that "

His explanation seearded him with a deep suspicion "'He may be a lawyer, a merchant, a Doctor'" she chanted ominously to herself

Miss Cornelia, too, was not entirely at ease

"In the center of this ring of light," she proceeded, her eyes on the Doctor's calm countenance, "was an almost perfect silhouette of a bat"

"A bat!" The Doctor seemed at sea "Ah, I see--the syain

"I think I can explain what you saw Quite often e ive precisely the effect you speak of Just to satisfy you, I'll go out and take a look"

He turned to do so Then he caught sight of the raincoat-covered huddle on the floor

"Why--" he said in a voice that lance slowly traversed the circle of silent faces