Like most men in my line, I read a trifle and when you called. attention in court, to the wound and the marks * j of bites I said again to myself, supposing it i war'nt rats. Then I remembered the story of the Rue Morgue murder by the Ourang outang. But there is only one Chimpanzee at ~l our Zoo and he is far too gentlemanly an aero bat for this sort of thing, besides be had never been loose. And then I began to think that there are such things as lovers, and jealous lovers. -,, in connection with young ladies, and that the murder might have been commuted in the way it has to put us off the scent. And then I thought suddenly of the two gentlemen Miss Darley was most intimate with, her host j Mr Faulconer and Captain Reynolds*" ..J " Good God! you don't mean to say yon suspected them." "No sir, emphatically I did'nt. They're not the sort. But I was'nt at all sure that they hadn't some,idea of how it happened, at least after the inquest." " What in heaven do you mean f* " Carry your memory back to the inquest. I ■** kept my eye on Mr. Fauleoner all the time he was giving his evidence and his face never ohanged until the watch was put into his hand. It ohanged then and it was only after a steady look at the cabman that he said. " This is not Miss Darley'a watch— f " I do remember, wha.t of that." " Well sir, I told you just now I don't suspect Mr Faulconer of murdering this poor girl. But I tell you"—and here his head almost touched his shoulders—" that when he saw that watch, he knew that Collins had not driven Miss Darley that night, and that being a gentleman for he is that, he spoke the truth. I heard him tell yon afterwards that if he could punish the murderers he would." I nodded. He had done so. * Well, the thought struck me as I thought j over your chaff about the " habitual criminal" \ that the owner of that watch could tell some thing about the crime and that Mr Faulconer 1 knew who it was." " Why not take action then." " Not enough to go on, sir. 