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"A foreigner?" Anstice was genuinely surprised "I say, what n"

"No You are right there inasner, French, Italian, Spanish, is fine and pointed in character, while this is htfully, and Anstice thought he looked more like Sherlock Holmes than ever--"there is one point in connection with this last letter which has evidently not struck you Suppose you read it through carefully oncein it which appears a trifle un-English, so to speak"

Anstice took the second letter as desired, and read it through carefully, while Clive watched hih Anstice had no suspicion of the fact, Clive, who had travelled in India, had in the light of that letter identified his visitor directly with the central figure in that bygone tragedy in Alostan; and although, owing to his absence froland, Clive had not been one of the experts consulted in the Carstairs case, it was not hard for hi to that notorious series of anonymous scrahich had roused so much interest in the Press a couple of years before this date

Just where the connection between the two cases came Clive could not discover, but he had always felt a curiously strong sympathy with the unknown man who had carried out a woly have helped Anstice to solve this problem if he could have seen his way to find the solution

Presently Anstice looked up rather apologetically

"I'ner"

Clive smiled

"Don't you? Well, I'll explain And after all I ain and pointed to the word India, which for some reason was set in inverted commas "Don't you notice any peculiarities about these colish writer uses them--and note the difference here"

Anstice studied the ith suddenly keen attention, and instantly noted the peculiarity of which Clive had spoken

"The first double comma, so to speak, is set below the line, and the other one above But English writers and printers use both above the line Isn't that so?"

"Yes Whereas in thethe commas are set as they are here--a trick which, toprobability, at least, of the writer of this letter being a foreigner of sorts"