The Curator appeared to be impressed in much the same way, and shook his head in a doubtful fashion when Correy asked him if he recognized the bow as belonging to the museum.
"I should have to see it nearer to answer that question with any sort of confidence," he demurred.

"From such glimpses as I can get of it from here I should say that it has not been taken from any of our exhibits." "I am sure it has not," muttered Correy.

Then with a side glance at Mr.
Gryce, he added: "Shall I slip in behind and get it ?" The detective, thus appealed to, hesitated a moment; then with an irrelevance perhaps natural to the occasion, he inquired where this door so conveniently hidden from the general view led to.

It was the Curator who answered.
"To a twisting, breakneck staircase opening directly into my office.

But this door has not been used in years.