You will see someone very like him, minus the adornments aforesaid, when you set eyes on the principal occupant of 37 Middle Street." Winter slowly assimilated this description.

Then he inquired: "Why did you say just now that you came away from Middle Street a few minutes too soon ?" "Where did Mrs.Capella go when she left the hotel ?" "If she went to visit the man you met, then she is acting in collision with her brother's murderer, and she knows it." "That is a hard thing to say, Winter." "It is a harder thing to credit, sir; but one cannot reject all evidence, merely because It happens to be straightforward and not hypothetical." "Winter, you are sneering at me." "No; I am only trying to make you admit the tendency of facts discovered by yourself.

There is a period in all criminal investigation when deductive reasoning becomes inductive." "Now I have got you," cried Brett "I thought I recognised the source of your new-born philosophy in the first postulate.

The second convinces me.
You have been reading 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue.'" "The book is in my pocket," admitted Winter.
"I recommend you to transfer it to your head.

It should be issued departmentally as a supplement to the Police Code.