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Updated: August 9, 2024
So this time your brass knocker shows no finger-marks of mine. You did not accept for publication the last paper I sent to you. Something had gone wrong. It was not as intended. Unlike Cleopatra, age had withered it. Was I not like a cook whose dinner has been sent back untasted?
That's all; nothing else was touched. But for the life of me I can't find a mark on the box, not a finger-mark. Now on a hot and humid summer night like last night I should say it was pretty likely that anyone touching this metal box would have left finger-marks. Shouldn't you think so, Kennedy?" Kennedy nodded and continued to examine the place where the compartment had been jimmied.
You tell us, sir, that this will is a forgery; this will, which was executed in broad daylight in the presence of two unimpeachable witnesses who have sworn, not only to their signatures and the contents of the document, but to their very finger-marks on the paper. Are those finger-marks forgeries, too? Have you examined and tested them?" "I have not," replied Thorndyke.
He brought a little standard lamp closer, and under its rays studied the two sets of prints closely. He did not need a magnifying-glass to see that none of Grell's finger-marks agreed with the two that were clear on the dagger. Grell leaned back in his chair as though the matter were one of complete indifference to him. "Does that satisfy you, Mr. Foyle?" he asked at last.
And so he grasped my hand in his, and when I came to look at it afterwards, I found it smeared with sable, and with great black finger-marks upon it, and led me away. We journeyed on in the Dark for he had put up his Lantern for another good half-hour, he singing to himself from time to time some hoarse catches of song having reference to some "Billy Boys" that I conjectured were his companions.
I have seen many terrible sights, but for utter and concentrated horror I have never seen anything to equal those finger-marks, the very sign- manual of Death.
So Tom communed as he pieced the fragments of the mirror together, ending by getting the sponge, rinsing it well, and carefully removing a few smears and finger-marks, before taking a clean cloth and wiping it quite dry. "That's no good," he said bitterly. "I'm only doing it so as to keep from going and telling uncle, and I must tell him I must tell him, and the sooner the better."
"With black finger-marks on their throats," said Miss Greeb dramatically, "and looks of horror in their eyes, and everything locked up, just like it was in No. 13, to show that nothing but a ghost could have killed them." "You forget, Miss Greeb," said Lucian flippantly, "poor Vrain was stabbed with a stiletto. Ghosts don't use material weapons."
'Mrs Wilson allowed me to come, sir. I assure you I have not been hurting anything. 'Who's to tell that? Mrs Wilson has no business to let any one come here. This is my quarters. There you've got one in your hand now! You've left finger-marks on the blade, I'll be bound. Give it me. He stretched out his hand. I drew back. 'This one is mine, I said. 'Ho, ho, young gentleman!
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