I will consider in the
order in which they became known to me.

"The first new light on the case came from the will. As soon as I had
read the document I felt convinced that there was something wrong. The
testator's evident intention was that his brother should inherit the
property, whereas the construction of the will was such as almost
certainly to defeat that intention. The devolution of the property
depended on the burial clause--clause two; but the burial arrangement
would ordinarily be decided by the executor, who happened to be Mr.
Jellicoe. Thus the will left the disposition of the property under the
control of Mr. Jellicoe, though his action could have been contested.

"Now, this will, although drawn up by John Bellingham, was executed in
Mr. Jellicoe's office as is proved by the fact that it was witnessed by
two of his clerks. He was the testator's lawyer, and it was his duty
to insist on the will being properly drawn. Evidently he did nothing
of the kind, and this fact strongly suggested some kind of collusion on
his part with Hurst, who stood to benefit by the miscarriage of the
will. And this was the odd feature in the case, for whereas the party
responsible for the defective provisions was Mr. Jellicoe, the party
who benefited was Hurst.

"But the most startling peculiarity of the will was the way in which it
fitted the circumstances of the disappearance. It looked as if clause
two had been drawn up with those very circumstances in view. Since,
however, the will was ten years old, this was impossible. But if
clause two could not have been devised to fit the disappearance, could
the disappearance not have been devised to fit clause two? That was by
no means impossible: under the circumstances it looked rather probable.
And if it had been so contrived, who was the agent in that contrivance?
Hurst stood to benefit, but there was no evidence that he even knew the
contents of the will. There only remained Mr. Jellicoe, who had
certainly connived at the misdrawing of the will for some purpose of
his own--some dishonest purpose.

"The evidence of the will, then, pointed to Mr. Jellicoe as the agent
in the disappearance, and, after reading it, I definitely suspected him
of the crime.

"Suspicion, however, is one thing and proof is another; I had not
nearly enough evidence to justify me in laying an information, and I
could not approach the Museum officials without making a definite
accusation. T