"
"I thought so, I knew it," replied Norton bitterly. "I can see it
coming. All the trustees will hear of my gross negligence in
letting the Museum be robbed. I suppose I ought to sit up there
all night. Oh, by the way, there's another thing I wanted to ask
you. Have you ever done anything with those shoe-prints you found
in the dust of the mummy case?"
I glanced at Kennedy, wondering whether he felt that the time had
come to reveal what he had discovered. He said nothing for a
moment, but reached into a drawer and pulled out the papers, which
I recognized.
"Here they are," he said, picking out the original impression
which he had taken.
"Yes," repeated Norton, "but have you been able to do anything
toward identifying them?"
"I found it rather hard to collect prints of the shoes of all of
those I wished to compare. But I have them at last."
"And?" demanded Norton, leaning forward tensely.
"I find that there is one person whose shoe-prints are precisely
the same as those we found in the Museum," went on Kennedy,
tossing over the impression he had taken.
Norton scanned the two carefully. "I'm not a criminologist," he
said excitedly, "but to my untrained eye it does seem as though
you had here a replica of the first prints, all right.
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