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тАЬDan,тАЭ Spencer said.

тАЬYeah?тАЭ

тАЬWas it something you saw in the scope?тАЭ

Dan's eyes became haunted, his mouth grooved grimly at the corners, and he said, тАЬWhat do you think,
Spence?тАЭ And he walked into the cottage, crossed to a bedroom, entered and slammed the door behind
him. When Spencer, hurrying after him, tried the door, he found it was locked.

It was still locked when Gail came home an hour and a half later.

Gail called to her brother several times. There was no answer. They went outside and looked at the
windows to the room. These were closed and, they discovered by pushing against the sash with a long
stick, locked. Gail said she wished to look into the room.

тАЬI'll lift you up so you can see what he's doing,тАЭ Gibble said rather too promptly.

Gail ignored him, said to Spencer, тАЬSpence, will you give me a hand up? Perhaps if I sat on your
shoulder, I could see into the window.тАЭ

She perched there on Spencer's shoulder for a while. He said finally, тАЬWell?тАЭ Then he gasped. тАЬHey!
Watch yourself! I can't hold you up there if youтАФтАЭ He let the rest go unsaid, being busy trying to keep
the young woman from toppling off his shoulder. He didn't succeed, but did break her fall.

тАЬShe fainted,тАЭ Gibble said.
 Chapter II


THE question that gave the police some trouble was this:

How had he hanged himself when he wasn't hanging from anything?

The silken cordтАФit was easily established that it came from the bathrobe his sister had given him at
ChristmasтАФwas about six feet long, three eights of an inch in diameter, and the knot in the end was a
regulation hangman's knot. Dan Adams had been a Boy Scout, and the police tried to establish that that
took care of his knowing how to tie a hangman's knot, but someone remembered the Scout Handbook
didn't have the hangman's knot among its collection. Gail insisted her brother didn't know how to tie a
hangman's knot. The police felt she would hardly know whether he did or not.

He had taken a bath. Without toweling himself quite dry, he had slipped on underwear shortsтАФit was a
humid day, and the drops of water had not evaporated from his skin. Spencer and Gibble hadn't heard
him taking a bath, but the evidence was obviousтАФthe wet shower cabinet, the damp footprints on the
bathroom floor, the soap cake with some lather still on it.

The bathroom connected with that bedroom and another one and with the living-room. That meant the
bathroom had three doors. Two were locked, the only unlocked one being into the bedroom where the
body was found. There was one window. Locked.

Therefore all windows and doors admitting to the room where the body lay were found locked. There