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"Your views in the matter," replied Maitland, "are precisely those which first occurred to me, and I aed to decide solely from the evidence I have submitted to you It was clear to my mind from the first that some common purpose actuated both Weltz and Rizzi With a view to ascertaining where they lived as a preparatory step toward learning more of them, I consulted a Boston directory, only to learn that it contained no such nahbouring tohen it occurred to me that the easiest way to find their places of residence would be to consult the green slips upon which they had procured their books, and I accordingly asked the attendant to kindly letthe slips I re-examined the list of books taken by Weltz and Rizzi, especially those which had been taken by bothat once struck e books which would take a long time to peruse and would require to be borrowed several times for hall use, were they to be examined with any care I put this fact down for future reference and gave reen slips, the whole twenty of which the attendant now placed before iven as No 15 Staniford Place, Boston, while that of Rizzi was No 5 Oak Street, Boston I was about to walk over to Oak Street to see if Rizzi were still there when, in returning the slips to the attendant, I noticed a peculiarity in Weltz's 'z' which I had thought I had seen in Rizzi's signature I immediately compared the slips There was the same oddly shaped 'z' in both It was made like this"--and he handed us a slip of paper with this z upon it

"You see," he continued, "it is so unusual a way ofthe letter that it at once attractedthe fact that Rizzi wrote with his left hand Closer examination revealed other peculiarities, as in the r's, co story short, I satisfied myself that the same person wrote the whole twenty slips and was,discovery, so eht there until the Library closed Happily the books I had been consulting were still on the table I picked out those borrowed under the naan aabout two hours when I discovered so that fairly took ht, but I knew that, if my microscope bore me out, I would be able to stake my life that the murderer of John Darrow had read that book I are, however, that even then I should not be able to name the man who had put his mark upon the book, but I could take oath that the record was made by the same hand that committed the murder