By no means the least interesting and least complicated riddle that I have been called upon to read was that of a case which happened many years ago. It was interesting from the fact that it illustrated in a forcible manner some of the darker phases of human nature. And it was calculated to produce wonderment in the minds of those who had never made human nature a study, as to why intellect should be so misapplied. The ordinary observer is naturally led to suppose that people who could play and carry out so bold and daring a deed as that I am about to relate, and which necessitated the exercise of no small amount of ingenuity and skill of a high order, would have directed their energies to honest effort. In short, why should men do wrong when by doing right they might gain ever so much mor
