James D. Hague 



know where to look for it now. The 

 manager and janitor of the office 

 building where Cutter had lodged 

 were equally ignorant concerning the 

 matter inquired of, although one of 

 them had seen the paper-wrapped 

 parcel, said to contain the helmet, in 

 Cutter's hands not long before his 

 death ; and Don Horacio's request 

 that the helmet be brought from his 

 lodgings to his bedside was remem- 

 bered as a certain indication that the 

 basin had been there among his per- 

 sonal effects when he left his lodging 

 for the last time. They gave the 

 further information that when certain 

 books and other chosen articles had 

 been removed from the room shortly 

 after Cutter's death, the remaining 

 effects had been sold to a second- 

 hand furniture dealer who, some 

 weeks thereafter, took everything 

 away, including, possibly the missing 

 basin ; but this possibility proved 



