"And how do you fit in the letter advising us of the murder?" asked the inspector.

Ah! it is all very well for the Government to send inspectors every month, and insist on registers, and the Mayor's signature and the stamp of the Commune; why, it's just as if it did nothing.

" "I haven't said so," replied the inspector.

"Who's going to look in, if all their bones are shaking?" "Ah, Marcus Ivanovitch, Marcus Ivanovitch!" sighed the inspector, looking at the window, "I told you you would come to a bad end!

At the door I met the friendly inspector from Scotland Yard, who gave me the necessary information, whereupon with a certain homely little French restaurant in my mind I bent my steps in the direction of Soho.

You can tell the inspector, Davis, that I have checked this lot of bones and that they are all here.

Fortunately for him, he found an inspector in charge who was both intelligent and zealous.

"He must have been smoking the pipe when we knocked at the door, and dashed away to hide before she let us in," grumbled the inspector.

"We mustn't be in a hurry in jumping at conclusions," remarked the inspector.

Would Birchill have told Hill that, if he'd committed the murder?" "Nothing more likely," exclaimed the inspector.

I am also authorized by the association which sent me here to report that the woman-suffragists and some other woman organizations of the city of Philadelphia, have condemned in resolution the action of the governor a year ago, I think, in vetoing a bill which passed largely both houses of the Legislature to appoint women inspectors of prisons.

" Whereupon Monsieur le Chefa pompous personage, with a bald head and a white moustacheshrugged his shoulders, smiled incredulously, had the honor to point out to Monsieur that the Government could by no means be at the expense of conveying an inspector from Toulon to Paris on so shadowy and unsupported a statement, and politely bowed us out.

"But can't you do anything?" demanded the inspector.

" There was something in Mr. Jellicoe's passionless tone that disturbed the inspector exceedingly, for he turned to Thorndyke and said in a low tone: "I wonder what his game is?

" "That's pretty much like a story-book," drawled the inspector incredulously, shaking his head.

Inspectors do not eat inspectors.

"Don't repeat my words like a parrot," ejaculated the inspector peevishly.

Each foreign house employs an inspector or taster, whose business it is to examine samples of all the teas submitted to the firm for purchase.

"Six mortal hours were exhausted in making the steamer fast,in sending off her Majesty's mails, of which the cockney speaks with a tone of reverence altogether disgusting to us free-minded Yankees,and in entertaining the custom-house inspectors, who paid a long and tedious visit to the saloon and our luggage.

" The little dog had sprung off his cushion and was eagerly following the inspector out of the room.

"'Yes,' grunted the inspector; 'thickheaded louts.

"Mr. Winslow, then, not knowing what to think, nor yet what to fear, and in spite of the horror he felt of giving publicity to his nephew's disappearance, thought it his duty to go round to the police-station and interview the inspector.

" It now occurred to me that as I had learned all that I was likely to learn, which was little enough, I might as well leave the inspector to pursue his researches unembarrassed by my presence.

But there was one among the four with the cunning of a fox; he was Spark Holly, who had located the inspector when in front of the house.

The association of rustlers became desperate because of the serious check given them by the Live Stock Association, which placed its inspectors at all the cattle-markets, Omaha, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Paul.