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Updated: May 22, 2025
Besides, I owed you a little mystification, Lestrade, for your chaff in the morning." "Well, sir, you certainly got equal with me on that. But how in the world did you know that he was in the house at all?" "The thumb-mark, Lestrade. You said it was final; and so it was, in a very different sense. I knew it had not been there the day before.
"Well," he rejoined, "you've hit the nail on the head, that's just what it is, but you are entirely wrong in your assumption that the thumb-mark can have no value as evidence. Do you not know that there are no two thumbs in the world which are capable of making indistinguishable marks?" I was not aware of this. "How do you know," I asked, "that this mark was made by the assassin?
The mist and rain entirely obscured the view. Now and then a tree showed as a thumb-mark on the grey. We little knew that we were passing through some of the most marvellous scenery in Europe. The carriage settled down with a bump. Something wrong with the harness; string was produced, and it was made usable for the next half-hour.
"And now," said Thorndyke, "we will take an enlarged photograph of this page with the thumb-mark; not that it is necessary that it should be done now, as you are leaving the book in my possession; but the photograph will be wanted, and as my man is expecting us and has the apparatus ready, we may as well despatch the business at once."
The index would be classified primarily by some unchanging physical characteristic, such as we are told the thumb-mark and finger-mark afford, and to these would be added any other physical traits that were of material value.
When Bauldy Johnston said 'the thumb-mark of his Maker was wet in the clay of him, he saw the print of a thumb in wet clay, and he saw the Almighty making a man out of mud, the way He used to do in the Garden of Eden lang syne. So Bauldy flashed the two ideas together, and the metaphor sprang! A man'll never make phrases unless he can see things in the middle of his brain.
I picked it up and turned it over, and then saw that there were smears of blood on it and what looked like the print of a thumb in blood. The thumb-mark was on the under-surface, as the paper lay at the bottom of the safe." "What did you do next?" "I closed and locked the safe, and sent a note to the police station saying that a robbery had been committed on my premises."
"The thumb-mark is that of Reuben Hornby, a fact that establishes a prima facie probability that he stole the diamonds. But there is no evidence that he had access to them, and if he had not, he could not have made the thumb-mark in the manner and at the time stated.
"That, my dear, is termed a professional thumb-mark. We will know him if we meet him in the dark," said Clip. Cora laughed. She felt, however, more serious than she cared to have the others know. "Well, let's be off this time," she said. "We will hardly make town before dark now." "A deliberate trick of Cecilia's," murmured Daisy. "She pretends to be so off-hand," answered Maud.
He took up the bowl and compared them. Trent turned the paper over, and on the other side was a bold black replica of the thumb-mark that was printed in grey on the glass in his hand. 'Same man, you see, Trent said with a short laugh. 'I felt that it must be so, and now I know. He walked to the window and looked out. 'Now I know, he repeated in a low voice, as if to himself.
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