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While Maitland was thus engaged I did all in my power to distract Gwen's attention, as arded it, the same intense and set expression overspread her countenance as that which at first had alarlad when Maitland returned fro soht him, for Gwen invariably followed all hisnothing escape her Maitland, who had asked me for a prescription blank, now dipped it in the chemicals he had mixed and, this accomplished, put the paper in hishere," he said, "which I desire to photograph quite as er objects," and he pinned a tiny, cruainst the wall, and made an exposure of it in that condition "Do you knohat this is?" he said, as he carefully shtest idea," I said "It is plain enough under theit upon the slide, and adjusting the focus "Would you like to examine it, Miss Darroen had scarcely put her eye to the instrument before she exclai of alder" Maitland's face was a study "Would youme," he said deliberately, "how you found that out so quickly?" She hesitated atoward the water, "I know the alder well --our boat is moored near a clump of them" "You are a keen observer," he replied, as he took the prepared paper from his box and spread the film of bark upon it to take a blue print of it "There is one other object upon the sill which, unfortunately, I cannot take aith me," he continued, "but shall have to contentI refer to a sinuous lineas if a short piece of rope, or, , since there is no rope-like texture visible, had been dropped upon it, and hastily re for all the world as if they were prepared to demonstrate a fourth dimension of space Noe shall see the suicide theory proved--to their own satisfaction, at least But, whatever they say, don't forget we are to keep our oork to ourselves"