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"Ah," he replied, "there is another little thing I have not told you After you had left the house with Miss Darrow on the night of the murder, and all the servants had retired, I locked the parlour securely and quietly slipped out to look about a bit As you know, the ht and any object moderately near was plainly visible I went around to the eastern side of the house where the prints of the hand and boards were found, and examined them with extreme care What I particularly wished to learn was the direction taken by the assassin as he left the house and the point at which he had removed the boards from his feet The imprints of the boards were clearly discernible so far as the loose gravel extended, but beyond that nothing could be discovered I sat down and pondered over the matter I had about concluded to drive two nails into the heels of uish ht intersect, and then, starting with the house as a centre, to describe an involute about it in the hope of being able to detect some one or more points where my course crossed that of the assassin, when I remembered that my friend Burwell, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin Combination recently stranded at Brockton was at home As you are perhaps aware an Uncle Toree,' one or two 'Markses,' one or two 'Topsies,' 'Uncle Tom,' a 'Little Eva,' who should not be over fifty years old,--or at least should not appear to be,--two bloodhounds, and anybody else that happens to be available It really doesn't make the least difference how many or ho people are in the cast I have heard that an Uncle Toer on a Western circuit, host' never walked, succeeded in cutting and rewriting the piece so as to double 'George Harris' and 'Legree,' ' Marks' and 'Topsy,' 'Uncle Toed that he could hiet off the door' in tis, all the other characters You see the dogs held the stage while he changed, say, froe Harris' would look off left second entrance and say that 'Legree' was after hiht first entrance, where he would pass his weapon to 'Eva' and 'Uncle Toe it in the wings at the iinary pursuer, while 'Harris' would put on a wire beard, slouch hat, blackbehind the flat, enter left as 'Legree'