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"No sooner had I made sure of my discovery than I set out for No 5 Oak Street, the address given by Rizzi There was no such person there, nor had there been anyone of that na the three years of the present tenant's occupancy I went to 15 Staniford Place with the sae came to the door She informed me that she had been born in the house and had always lived there She had never known anyone by the name of Weltz This was just what I had expected Theis shrewd al hiling on his part

"I have now told you all I have learned, or rather all that is sufficiently definite to coive our hope a new lease of life What do you think of it, Miss Darrow?"

"I think what you have learned," Gwen replied, "will be of the utuide you I a the services of such a detective, --indeed, I am at a loss to kno to thank you for all you have done,--for all you are doing, I--"

"My dear Miss Darrow," Maitland interrupted, "I need no thanks Be assured I am selfish in all I do It is a pleasure to me, therefore I do it You see I deserve no credit If I a yourself, I shall beas I did close beside her, saw thelids Maitland took his leave al's work before hiht us, until far into the night I did not see him the next day, which was Tuesday, and I believe not on Wednesday It was Thursday afternoon, if I do notitvery i for an as soon as I was seated, "to talk this reat difficulty which besets me in this case is that nearly all our evidence, while it is of a nature to enable us to convict our man once we have hi him What do we know of him up to date; or at least of what do we feel reasonably assured? Let us see John Darroas poisoned in some mysterious way by a man as stationed just outside the partly openedThe weapon, or whatever was used as such, was taken away by thein the nature of a projectile could have been employed, since the wound was upon a part of the victim's throat known to have been turned away from theand to have been coh and massive back of the chair in which the victim sat