many of them bonds. These I have accumulated from time to time in
my study of the subject. None of them, as you can see, shows
fibres resembling this one in question, so we may conclude that
it is of uncommon quality. Through an agent of the police I have
secured samples of the notepaper of every one who could be
concerned, as far as I could see, with this case. Here are the
photographs of the fibres of these various notepapers, and among
them all is just one that corresponds to the fibres in the wet
mass of paper I discovered in the scrap-basket. Now lest anyone
should question the accuracy of this method I might cite a case
where a man had been arrested in Germany charged with stealing a
government bond. He was not searched till later. There was no
evidence save that after the arrest a large number of spitballs
were found around the courtyard under his cell window. This
method of comparing the fibres with those of the regular
government paper was used, and by it the man was convicted of
stealing the bond. I think it is almost unnecessary to add that
in the present case we know precisely who--"

At this point the tension was so great that it snapped. Miss La
Neige, who was sitting beside me, had been leaning forward
involuntarily. Almost as if the words were wrung from her she
whispered hoarsely: "They put me up to doing it; I didn't want
to. But the affair had gone too far. I couldn't see him lost
before my very eyes. I didn't want her to get him. The quickest
way out was to tell the whole story to Mr. Parker and stop it. It
was the only way I could think of to stop this thing between
another man's wife and the man I loved better than my own
husband. God knows, Professor Kennedy, that was all--"