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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."