The Quest of the Sacred Slipper

awakened by the arrival of Br

terday," he began, "

has ha

little finger on Professor Deeping's safe! There's no doubt in my mind that every lascar at the docks knows Hassan of Aleppo to be in England. Some

garette, and lig

ofessor's house, and two C.I.D. men were actually in the room where the safe is. Result

at him

cried. "But that is impossible,

oth knocked

whom! My God!

ally. They both came round ab

attacke

a. Neither of th

unds. "But, Bristol, one of them

ir statements

fail to f

and West, the two C.I.D. men, had quite recovered their senses, though they were

as he at

minutes after the surgeon had done with him. He said that they were sitting in t

ey have

door. I had arranged that every hour one of them should go out to the gate and take the

have no doubt that it was the sound of the constable's fall. West's pipe had gone out, and he struck a match to relight it. As he did so, Marden

oaning somewhere beside him. They both had badly damaged skulls with great bruises behind the ear. It is instructive to note that their wounds corresponded almost to a fraction of an inch. They had been stunned by s

den's accou

ousness, saw Marden go i

but I cannot conjecture how any one can

ble; he was some distance from the window. No o

he con

of course, but didn't touch it, according to instructions. Someone had been at work on the lock, but it

tched during the

anything will be attempted in dayli

rrange that

can see the dang

aordinarily

ty out in the open. I know, and so do you, that they're past masters of that kind of thing; but unless they possess the power to render

a trap for th

ticipate it and change their tactics. Hassan of Aleppo a

siderable culture, clearly was infecte