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"Which !" said Miss Cornelia acidly "Very well! But first I want to show you so Will you come here, please, Mr Anderson?"

She started for the alcove

"I've examined that staircase," said the detective

"Not withto show you"

He followed her unwillingly up the stairs, his wholeto betray a complete lack of confidence in the theories of all aeneral and spinster detectives of sixty-five in particular Their footsteps died away up the alcove stairs The living-roo The moment that Miss Cornelia and the detective had passed up the stairs, the crouching, an to ure passed through it silently to be sed up in the darkness of the terrace

And poor Lizzie, entering the room at that ly, horribly, through the broken pane, refasten the lock

She shrieked madly