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"
The
next
question
is
that
of
the
mode
of
descent
.
Upon
this
point
I
had
been
satisfied
in
my
walk
with
you
around
the
building
.
About
five
feet
and
a
half
from
the
casement
in
question
there
runs
a
lightning-rod
.
From
this
rod
it
would
have
been
impossible
for
any
one
to
reach
the
window
itself
,
to
say
nothing
of
entering
it
.
I
observed
,
however
,
that
shutters
of
the
fourth
story
were
of
the
peculiar
kind
called
by
Parisian
carpenters
ferrades
--
a
kind
rarely
employed
at
the
present
day
,
but
frequently
seen
upon
very
old
mansions
at
Lyons
and
Bordeaux
.
They
are
in
the
form
of
an
ordinary
door
,
(
a
single
,
not
a
folding
door
)
except
that
the
upper
half
is
latticed
or
worked
in
open
trellis
--
thus
affording
an
excellent
hold
for
the
hands
.
In
the
present
instance
these
shutters
are
fully
three
feet
and
a
half
broad
.
When
we
saw
them
from
the
rear
of
the
house
,
they
were
both
about
half
open
--
that
is
to
say
,
they
stood
off
at
right
angles
from
the
wall
.
It
is
probable
that
the
police
,
as
well
as
myself
,
examined
the
back
of
the
tenement
;
but
,
if
so
,
in
looking
at
these
ferrades
in
the
line
of
their
breadth
(
as
they
must
have
done
)
,
they
did
not
perceive
this
great
breadth
itself
,
or
,
at
all
events
,
failed
to
take
it
into
due
consideration
.
In
fact
,
having
once
satisfied
themselves
that
no
egress
could
have
been
made
in
this
quarter
,
they
would
naturally
bestow
here
a
very
cursory
examination
.
It
was
clear
to
me
,
however
,
that
the
shutter
belonging
to
the
window
at
the
head
of
the
bed
,
would
,
if
swung
fully
back
to
the
wall
,
reach
to
within
two
feet
of
the
lightning-rod
.
It
was
also
evident
that
,
by
exertion
of
a
very
unusual
degree
of
activity
and
courage
,
an
entrance
into
the
window
,
from
the
rod
,
might
have
been
thus
effected
.
--
By
reaching
to
the
distance
of
two
feet
and
a
half
(
we
now
suppose
the
shutter
open
to
its
whole
extent
)
a
robber
might
have
taken
a
firm
grasp
upon
the
trellis-work
.
Letting
go
,
then
,
his
hold
upon
the
rod
,
placing
his
feet
securely
against
the
wall
,
and
springing
boldly
from
it
,
he
might
have
swung
the
shutter
so
as
to
close
it
,
and
,
if
we
imagine
the
window
open
at
the
time
,
might
have
swung
himself
into
the
room
.
"
I
wish
you
to
bear
especially
in
mind
that
I
have
spoken
of
a
very
unusual
degree
of
activity
as
requisite
to
success
in
so
hazardous
and
so
difficult
a
feat
.
It
is
my
design
to
show
you
,
first
,
that
the
thing
might
possibly
have
been
accomplished
:
--
but
,
secondly
and
chiefly
,
I
wish
to
impress
upon
your
understanding
the
very
extraordinary
--
the
almost
praeternatural
character
of
that
agility
which
could
have
accomplished
it
.
"
You
will
say
,
no
doubt
,
using
the
language
of
the
law
,
that
'
to
make
out
my
case
'
I
should
rather
undervalue
,
than
insist
upon
a
full
estimation
of
the
activity
required
in
this
matter
.
This
may
be
the
practice
in
law
,
but
it
is
not
the
usage
of
reason
.
My
ultimate
object
is
only
the
truth
.
My
immediate
purpose
is
to
lead
you
to
place
in
juxta-position
that
very
unusual
activity
of
which
I
have
just
spoken
,
with
that
very
peculiar
shrill
(
or
harsh
)
and
unequal
voice
,
about
whose
nationality
no
two
persons
could
be
found
to
agree
,
and
in
whose
utterance
no
syllabification
could
be
detected
.
"
At
these
words
a
vague
and
half-formed
conception
of
the
meaning
of
Dupin
flitted
over
my
mind
.
I
seemed
to
be
upon
the
verge
of
comprehension
,
without
power
to
comprehend
--
as
men
,
at
times
,
find
themselves
upon
the
brink
of
remembrance
,
without
being
able
,
in
the
end
,
to
remember
.
My
friend
went
on
with
his
discourse
.
"
You
will
see
,
"
he
said
,
"
that
I
have
shifted
the
question
from
the
mode
of
egress
to
that
of
ingress
.
It
was
my
design
to
suggest
that
both
were
effected
in
the
same
manner
,
at
the
same
point
.
Let
us
now
revert
to
the
interior
of
the
room
.
Let
us
survey
the
appearances
here
.
The
drawers
of
the
bureau
,
it
is
said
,
had
been
rifled
,
although
many
articles
of
apparel
still
remained
within
them
.
The
conclusion
here
is
absurd
.
It
is
a
mere
guess
--
a
very
silly
one
--
and
no
more
.
How
are
we
to
know
that
the
articles
found
in
the
drawers
were
not
all
these
drawers
had
originally
contained
?
Madame
L'Espanaye
and
her
daughter
lived
an
exceedingly
retired
life
--
saw
no
company
--
seldom
went
out
--
had
little
use
for
numerous
changes
of
habiliment
.
Those
found
were
at
least
of
as
good
quality
as
any
likely
to
be
possessed
by
these
ladies
.
If
a
thief
had
taken
any
,
why
did
he
not
take
the
best
--
why
did
he
not
take
all
?
In
a
word
,
why
did
he
abandon
four
thousand
francs
in
gold
to
encumber
himself
with
a
bundle
of
linen
?
The
gold
was
abandoned
.
Nearly
the
whole
sum
mentioned
by
Monsieur
Mignaud
,
the
banker
,
was
discovered
,
in
bags
,
upon
the
floor
.
I
wish
you
,
therefore
,
to
discard
from
your
thoughts
the
blundering
idea
of
motive
,
engendered
in
the
brains
of
the
police
by
that
portion
of
the
evidence
which
speaks
of
money
delivered
at
the
door
of
the
house
.
Coincidences
ten
times
as
remarkable
as
this
(
the
delivery
of
the
money
,
and
murder
committed
within
three
days
upon
the
party
receiving
it
)
,
happen
to
all
of
us
every
hour
of
our
lives
,
without
attracting
even
momentary
notice
.
Coincidences
,
in
general
,
are
great
stumbling-blocks
in
the
way
of
that
class
of
thinkers
who
have
been
educated
to
know
nothing
of
the
theory
of
probabilities
--
that
theory
to
which
the
most
glorious
objects
of
human
research
are
indebted
for
the
most
glorious
of
illustration
.
In
the
present
instance
,
had
the
gold
been
gone
,
the
fact
of
its
delivery
three
days
before
would
have
formed
something
more
than
a
coincidence
.
It
would
have
been
corroborative
of
this
idea
of
motive
.
But
,
under
the
real
circumstances
of
the
case
,
if
we
are
to
suppose
gold
the
motive
of
this
outrage
,
we
must
also
imagine
the
perpetrator
so
vacillating
an
idiot
as
to
have
abandoned
his
gold
and
his
motive
together
.
"
Keeping
now
steadily
in
mind
the
points
to
which
I
have
drawn
your
attention
--
that
peculiar
voice
,
that
unusual
agility
,
and
that
startling
absence
of
motive
in
a
murder
so
singularly
atrocious
as
this
--
let
us
glance
at
the
butchery
itself
.
Here
is
a
woman
strangled
to
death
by
manual
strength
,
and
thrust
up
a
chimney
,
head
downward
.
Ordinary
assassins
employ
no
such
modes
of
murder
as
this
.
Least
of
all
,
do
they
thus
dispose
of
the
murdered
.
In
the
manner
of
thrusting
the
corpse
up
the
chimney
,
you
will
that
there
was
something
excessively
outre
--
something
altogether
irreconcilable
with
our
common
notions
of
human
action
,
even
when
we
suppose
the
actors
the
most
depraved
of
men
.
