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"He may have had trouble with the combination"

"Perhaps Anyhow, he was on the s started up, and of course he shot hiot the safe open, after locking us in below, and et out on the roof?"

Bailey glanced out the

"It would be possible from here Possible, but not easy"

"But, if he could do that," she persisted, "he could have got away, too There are trellises and porches Instead of that he came back here to this room" She stared at the"Could a man have done that with one hand?"

"Never in the world"

Saying nothing, but deeply thoughtful, Miss Cornelia ress around the room

"I know very little about bank-currency," she said finally "Could such a sum as was looted from the Union Bank be carried away in a man's pocket?"

Bailey considered the question

"Even in bills of large denomination it would make a pretty sizeable bundle," he said

But that Miss Cornelia's deductions were correct, whatever they were, was in question when Lizzie returned with the elderberry wine Apparently Miss Cornelia was to be like the s left over

For Lizzie announced that the Unknoas ranging the second floor hall Fro-rooht of, but that he was a part of the mystery there could be no doubt It flashed over Miss Cornelia that, although he could not possibly have locked them in, in the darkness that followed he could easily have fastened the bat to the door For the first tiht not be working alone, and that the entrance of the Unknown ether and hold them there

Nor was Beresford's arrival with the stateh the house below particularly co

"He may be dazed, or he may not," he said "Personally, this is not a ti of what had just occurred, and now seeing Bailey he favored hilance

"In the absence of Anderson, Bailey," he added, "I don't propose to trust you too far I' it et away Get that?"

But Bailey heard hiht," he said "But I'll tell you this Anderson is here and has arrested the Doctor Keep your eye on me, if you think it's your duty, but don't talk to me as if I were a criminal You don't know that yet"