The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 14: what you’re looking at

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THE TWIN DETECTIVES. 5 When they reached the ruined chapel they crossed a track or trail in the soft moss. Bob stooped and examined it. ‘¢ Who has come through here to-day?” ‘No one, sir. “Is lordship hordered all the people away.” ‘*You are certain of this?” ‘¢ Yes, sir.” Bob stooped over the trail. It consisted of only two prints of a man’s foot. : Then the trail was lost, for, the season being autumn, the park was strewn with dry leaves. Bob ran his knife around the patch of moss, and raised it carefully. The flunkey looked contemptuous. ‘«“Them marks hain’t got nothin’ to do with the robbery,” he said. ‘‘ There hain’t no marks near the vault.” ‘Ts that so?” asked Bob, innocently. ‘‘ Well, I thought they might have something to do with it. Anyhow, Ill examine them by and by.” The vault was avery large one, and almost overgrown with ivy. Bob entered it; but the footman lingered at the door to talk with the rural policeman, who stood guard over the — despoiled tomb. There was a desecrated coffin—empty. ‘The lid had been broken open, thrown down, and the gold plate rudely torn off. Bob eyed the dusty floor of the vault. It was tracked to and fro by many foot-prints. He stooped, and peered behind the coffin, which had been pushed out from the wall. On the dusty floor, in the space left when the coffin was pushed forward, was one print of a man’s foot. A stocking foot. Bob knelt down, and, taking a tape measure from his m a) Gomicbooks: co