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"Pardon"Youhis sentence for hi the interruption "As I have already said, I a out crime As a lawyer, and also as a chereat deal of evidence in criminal cases, and in this and other ways, learned the lines upon which detectives may confidently be expected to act, when once they have set up an hypothesis The means by which they arrive at their hypotheses occasionally surpass all understanding, and we have, therefore, no assurance as to the view they will take of this case The first thing they will do will be to h exaives to the word 'thorough' a significance of which they have no conception It is to shorten this exa more tiresome to you than is absolutely necessary," he said to Gwen, "that I have taken the liberty of ascertaining and recording most of the data the officers will require"

"Believe me," Gwen said to hih we heard it, "I arateful for your consideration and shall find a fitting tiesture, Maitland continued: "Now let us look at the matter from the standpoint of the officers They must first determine in their own minds how Mr Darrow met his death This will constitute the basis of their first hypothesis I say 'first' because they are liable to change it at any moment it seems to them untenable If they conclude that death resulted from natural causes, I shall doubtless be able to induce theiven time to prove it untenable--if I can--and to act for the present upon one of the other two possible theories It appears, froe of the case, that, whichever one of these they choose, the same difficulty will confront thely and he continued, answering the question in her eyes: "This is what I mean Your father, whether he committed suicide or was h that almost imperceptible wound under his chin This wound, so far as I have yet been able to exalass, was made with a somewhat blunt instrument, able, apparently, to little more than puncture the skin and draw a drop or so of blood Of course, on such a theory, deathThe essential point is: Where is the instrument that inflicted the wound?"