Atlas Nightshade

Day 133

“But there are not wanting other grounds for the suspicion that

the articles were placed in the thicket with the view of

diverting attention from the real scene of the outrage. And,

first, let me direct your notice to the date of the discovery of

the articles. Collate this with the date of the fifth extract

made by myself from the newspapers. You will find that the

discovery followed, almost immediately, the urgent communications

sent to the evening paper. These communications, although various

and apparently from various sources, tended all to the same

point—viz., the directing of attention to a gang as the

perpetrators of the outrage, and to the neighborhood of the

Barrière du Roule as its scene. Now here, of course, the

suspicion is not that, in consequence of these communic