He looked at me curiously for a moment. Then he bent forward and said--

“On the edge of the shutter there were some curious marks where the wood

had been charred.”

“As if a hand with a red-hot gauntlet had been laid upon it?”

“There were the marks of two such hands,” said my friend slowly.

We remained for an hour in the garden; then we threw away the ends of

our cigars and went into the hotel without another word.

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