Solution—Incident of the Amazed Housekeeper

Mrs. Gunther said Hohlman had been away three days and that no one had been in his room, yet the bell controlled by the alarm clock rang! This meant that someone (Hohlman as was later proved) had been in the room during the past thirty-six hours and wound the alarm clock. Otherwise it would have run down and could not have rung the bell.

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THE CLOCK UPBRAIDS ME.

—Shakespeare