The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 12: what you’re looking at

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THE TWIN DETECTIVES. CHAPTER I. » THE CASE. It happened in Scotland, at Montrose Hall. It was a re- markable case. A robbery had been committed. The theft of a dead body, and that body the body of a noble earl. It is scarcely too much to say that all Great Britain stood aghast. The Earl of Cuthbert had been laid to rest in the family vault, where a long line of noble ancestors slumbered. The vault was found open, but no trace of the robbers told the tale of their stealthy flight with their ghastly booty. All the noble relations of the late earl were horrified and indignant. A telegram was dispatched to Scotland Yard by his heir: © ‘Send your best detectives here immediately. The remains of the Earl of Cuthbert have been stolen from the family vault.” In a few hours two plainly dressed men sat in the library at Melrose, the country seat of the earl. | They talked with his lordship. They were the detectives. One of them was a serious-faced, middle-aged man. The other had apparently reached the age of twenty-five. — He was singularly unlike most of his professional brothers. ~ »* (Eo) aa ( 900 SH COI