Solution—Professor Fordney’s Curiosity

The real Doctor Bellen had been seriously wounded in the left leg a few days before. Therefore, if he had been in physical condition to get about, he would (even despite habit) have carried his cane in his left hand to take the weight off the injured leg. Barstow’s one mistake was in carrying the cane in his right hand.

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HE WHO WOULD PRY BEHIND THE SCENES OFT SEES A COUNTERFEIT.

—Dryden