HUMPHRIES DISAPPEARS. 44I 



until a few years afterwards, when a most 

 damning piece of evidence turned up unex- 

 pectedly. The Black Pond was being cleared 

 out, and, as I was crossing the park, one of the 

 men engaged on the job called me to look at 

 a pair of shoes he had found in the mud. 

 " Such curious shoes as I have never seen 

 before, keeper," said he. I recognized them 

 in a moment ; they were Humphries', the ones 

 that Inspector Scott wanted. I don't think 

 Humphries ever returned from Australia, but 

 whether he is alive or not I don't know. So 

 here ends my experience of him, and here 

 ends my book. 

 Good-bve. 



The End. 



