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THE TELLTALE CIGARETTE BOX
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"This looks as if those rascals, Jasniff and Merwell, had come here."

"I believe they did come," went on Dave. "And here is one clew we have already picked up against them." And he held up the empty cigarette box.

"What is that? Only a cigarette box. How can that be a clew?"

"I will tell you. Both Jasniff and Merwell are inveterate cigarette smokers. I have seen them smoking many times. They smoke a Turkish brand of cigarettes, having a peculiar blue and gold band around the box. This is the same kind of a box, and I am convinced that this box was emptied and thrown away in your offices by Jasniff or Merwell."