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Rh ing little story? What do you think of it? Murray, you can go."

On that hint the chief warder also went. The governor and the doctor were alone. When they were alone the two officials dropped to a perceptible degree their official manner.

"Frankly, Paley, I don't know what to think."

"You don't mean to say that you believe in the genuineness of that story as it was told to us?"

"I repeat, I don't know what to think. You see, there are not only those photographs and the woman's letter, but there is something else besides. Paley, I've been breaking the rules."

"How?"

"I've been carrying a detective camera about with me, and I've been taking a snap-shot at that man Solly whenever I got the chance." "You have, have you? It's just as well you didn't tell me, or I should have been down on you, my friend. Well, and what was the idea?"

"Never mind what the idea was, I'll tell you what the result is. The result is nineteen photographs, and in each of them, with the exception of two, there's the woman."

"You don't mean it!"

"I do mean it. Those photographs are my own property. I've half a mind to lay them before the Society for Psychical Research. I flatter myself that they would constitute as neat a case for inquiry as that august society has yet encountered." "Livermore! None of that! There'll be trouble if you do!"

"I'm only jesting. I'm not likely to give myself