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"It is in the hope that no paymentto Gwen's cheeks, but she only replied by a grateful glance I kneas passing through herof her promise--of her father's last words, and of the terrible possibilities thereof fro to rescue her She felt that she could safely owe hireat, while he, on his part, took what I fancied, both then and afterward, were unnecessary pains to assure her that, in the event of his finding the assassin, she need have no fear of hisany claim whatsoever upon her And so the whole affair was dropped for the ti to Maitland's account of his experiences while abroad

The nextI called upon our detective at his laboratory and asked him what he intended to do next He replied that he had no plans as yet, but that he wished to revieiththat renders the solution of this mystery so difficult is the fact that all our clues, while they would be of the utmost service in the conviction of the assassin had we found him, are almost destitute of any value until he has been located Add to this that we are now unable to find any ht are our hopes of success If ever we chance to find the man,--for I feel that such a consu else,--I think we can convict hilass which he had cut from the eastern parlourof the Darrow house, "is so I have never shown either you or Miss Darrow It is utterly worthless, so far as assisting us to track the assassin is concerned, but, if ever we suspect the right lass would probably convict hih there were ten thousand other suspects"

I took the glass fro it with the utmost care, I detected a s more "For Heaven's sake, Maitland!" I said in astonishment, "of what possible use can that forlass that has escaped hed atthere but the paint spot Regarding that, however, you have coh erroneous conclusion It is not forlass to assist ht The paint lay upon the glass in little irregular furrohich arranged theroove somewhat imperfect in shape "Well," continued Maitland, as I returned hilass, "what do you make of it?" "If you hadn't already attached so ," I said, "I should pronounce it a daub of paint transferred to the glass by so would be clearly useless, I am at a loss to knohat it is"