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Now tell me, did you ascertain beyond all doubt that the diamonds were really gone?" "Yes; I examined the safe thoroughly, first by myself and afterwards with the police. There was no doubt that the diamonds had really gone." "When the detective suggested that you should have the thumb-prints of your two nephews taken, did you refuse?" "I refused." "Why did you refuse?"
Well, after dinner we were a little dull and rather at a loss, because Juliet, my niece, you know, had cut her finger and couldn't play the piano excepting with the left hand, and that is so monotonous as well as fatiguing, and the Colleys are not musical, excepting Adolphus, who plays the trombone, but he hadn't got it with him, and then, fortunately, Walter came in and brought the 'Thumbograph' and took all our thumb-prints and his own as well, and we were very much amused, and Matilda Colley that is the eldest daughter but one said that Reuben jogged her elbow, but that was only an excuse "
Just as he was about to plunge headlong into the flames, a shout sounded in his ears, forms came rushing through the smoke, and Charley was lifted in the forester's strong arms and borne to one side. More Thumb-Prints For a long time Charley lay on his back, hardly conscious of anything. But slowly the pure air revived him and his powers came back. He sat up, then rose unsteadily to his feet.
The report of the experts is that the thumb-print does not agree with any of the thumb-prints of criminals in their possession; that it is a very peculiar one, inasmuch as the ridge-pattern on the bulb of the thumb which is a remarkably distinct and characteristic one is crossed by the scar of a deep cut, rendering identification easy and infallible; that it agrees in every respect with the thumb-print of Mr.
The ranger carefully wrapped the clay ball in his handkerchief, and then in a newspaper. "Let me have this," he said. "The police may have some duplicate prints somewhere. We don't know what Collins and his pal are up to, but we have something here that we may find very useful. It isn't every crook that is so considerate as to leave his thumb-prints behind him." Good News For the Fire Patrol
"Have you examined the paper that was handed to you?" asked Sir Hector Trumpler. "I have." "What did you see on the paper?" "I saw twenty thumb-prints, of which some were evident forgeries, some were evidently genuine, and some were doubtful." "Taking the thumb-prints seriatim, what have you noted about them?" Mr.
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