A MYSTERY FOR THE POLICE
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a handful at a time, not noticing what he was doing.
"He wass there, because he tore the baper off loudly. Berhaps he did not exbect the box to be covered with baper; and therefore he tore it off so loudly that it wass heard. It follows, therefore, that he wass there. To say he wass not there, that also is imbossible!"
He dumped the remaining corn in a heap and stood still.
"To be there wass not enough," he said gravely. "Also he must know—and in the dark—that the box wass beneath the baper. I would like to know—yes, I would wonder if that box hass a smell!"
Suddenly he threw away the measure that had held the corn.
"Chang!"
