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"I warn you not to obstruct the course of justice!" he said forcibly "Give it here!"

The Doctor rose slowly, dusting off his knees His eyes tried to meet Anderson's and failed He produced a torn corner of blue-print

"Why, it's only a scrap of paper, nothing at all," he said evasively

Anderson looked at hily

"Scraps of paper are solance at Dale

Beresford approached the two angrily

"Look here!" he burst out, "I've got a right to know about this thing I brought Fle over here--and I want to knohat happened to him!"

"You don't have to be a mind reader to know that!" moaned Lizzie, overcome

As usual, her comment went unanswered Beresford persisted in his questions

"Who killed him? That's what I want to know!" he continued, nervously puffing his cigarette

"Well, you're not alone in that," said Anderson in his grimly humorous vein

The Doctor motioned nervously to thegest that the body be taken where I can ly

Once more Anderson bent over the shell that had been Richard Fle He turned the body half-over--let it sink back on its face For a lanced at the corner of the blue-print in his hand, then at the Doctor Then he stood aside

"All right," he said laconically

So Richard Fle left the rooely--borne out by Beresford, the Doctor, and Jack Bailey The little procession moved as swiftly and softly as circue atchful eyes Billy wentwhich the detective had kicked aside and carried it off after the body When the burden and its bearers, with Anderson in the rear, reached the doorway into the hall, Lizzie shrank before the sight, affrighted, and turned toward the alcove while Miss Cornelia stared unseeingly out toward the front s So, for perhaps a dozen ticks of time Dale was left unwatched--and she ers fumbled at the bosoment of blue-print that Anderson must not find in her possession--but where to hide it, before her chance had passed? Her eyes fell on the bread roll that had fallen from the detective's supper tray to the floor when Lizzie had seen the glea eye on the stairs and had lain there unnoticed ever since She bent over swiftly and secreted the tantalizing scrap of blue paper in the body of the roll, sers Then she replaced the roll where it had fallen originally and straightened up just as Billy and the detective returned