bag, the diamond was gone. It wasn't on anyone
--old Pointz himself even was searched--he suggested
it himself--and I'll swear it was nowhere in
that room I A nd nobody left the room
"No waiters, for instance?" suggested Mr.
Parker Pyne.
Llewellyn shook his head.
"They went out before the girl began messing
about with the diamond, and afterwards Pointz
locked the door so as to keep them out. No, it lies
between one of us."
"It would certainly seem so," said Mr. Parker
Pyne thoughtfully.
"That damned evening paper," said Evan Lewellyn
bitterly. "I saw it come into their minds--that
that was the only way--"
"Just tell me again exactly what occurred."
"It was perfectly simple. I threw open the win
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dow, whistled to the man, threw down a copper
and he tossed me up the paper. And there it is; you
see--the only possible way the diamond could
have left the room--thrown by me to an accom-plice
waiting in the street below."
"Not the only possible way," said Mr. Parker
Pyne.
"What other way can you suggest?"
"If you didn't throw it out, there must have
been some other way."