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In its anxiety to cap the satisfactory splash it was making over this Country House Outrage, the Daily had overstepped itself and militated against itself. Those "Catchy Clues" were responsible. So cunningly did they inspire the taste for amateur detective work, so easy did they make such work appear, that Mr.

"I thought Will was going to get us clues," Mollie went on. "Or your father?" "Oh, of course they may find the owners, but they are waiting for something to be published in the papers." "Well, is Allen doing any more?" Amy asked. "If he is he hasn't said anything to us about it, though of course you'd be the first one to hear of it, Betty," she said, innocently enough.

They had opportunity, and they had a lot of straggling links of clues, which in the total made a fair chain of circumstantial evidence. But that was all. That is the way the case stood on Tuesday night, March the thirteenth. Mr. Ladley was taken away at nine o'clock. He was perfectly cool, asked me to help him pack a suit case, and whistled while it was being done.

It was his favorite theory that there was method in what seemed chance; principles underlying luck; measures for infinity; clues to all combinations. Given one pack of cards, one man to shuffle, one to cut, one to deal, and fair play, and it was yet possible to know just how many times in a given number of games each card would fall to each man.

He sought vainly for a foundation on which to build his clues and discoveries; for some overlooked trifle which would help him to read aright the true order and significance of the jumbled assortment of events in this strange case. In the first place, was Ronald's explanation, about losing his way and wandering to the inn by chance, the true one?

Then entered Warrington, the adjutant, and the servant was dismissed at once. "Bad business," said Warrington, looking thoroughly cheerful. "What now?" "One of Squadron D's men murdered in the bazaar this afternoon. Body's in the morgue in charge of the police. 'Nother man who was with him apparently missing. No explanation, and the p'lice say there aren't any clues."

"Here's where the mystery gets so deep that it looks as if no one can ever fathom it." He paused. "Well?" snapped Mark, exasperatedly. "From habit a detective is always looking about for clues and possible bits of information. And so, largely as a matter of habit, I glanced into every open compartment as we passed through the coaches.

"It's a bit too fishy for my liking," he went on, "when the only clues a man's got to go on are a dancing flame and a patch of charred grass which, by the way, never struck me as particularly interesting at the best of times and when evidence points so strongly toward young Merriton's guilt. All I can say is, let's go. That's the ticket for me." "And for me also, old man!" agreed Mr.

Although the English papers published in India had evidently been instructed to maintain silence about matters which might place England in an unfavourable light, they furnished a good deal of news which gave the intelligent reader all manner of clues as to the present warlike situation. It could be seen that England was also arming against France.

It was quite possible for a clever man like Dent to furnish her with endless clues which all led to nothing. His object was to give her a reason for remaining in Warrington his object was to keep her at any hazard out of Liverpool. He knew that in Liverpool the knowledge of his treachery towards Will could not long be concealed from her.