I did not expect an answer, and I did not get it.

We looked at each other for a moment, then I let him go." A momentary silence, which the Inspector broke by saying: "Later I called the Curator in, and he also recognized the bow as belonging to the museum.

But he volunteered no explanations and in fact had little to say on the subject.

He was evidently too much startled by the direct connection which had thus been made between the crime (or accident, if you will) and the personnel of the museum." "That was natural.

He should be the first to see that the bow which shot the arrow must of necessity have been brought into the building by some other door than those at which the doormen stood guard.