Julien Dupre paintings

Julien Dupre paintings
Julius LeBlanc Stewart paintings
, in the house, instead of out of it. But doors and listeners have a knack of getting together; and, in my line of life, we cultivate a healthy taste for the open air.'
Who was to circumvent this man? I gave in--and waited as patiently as I could to hear what was coming next.
`We won't enter into your young lady's motives,' the Sergeant went on; `we will only say it's a pity she declines to assist me, because, by so doing, she makes this investigation more difficult than it might otherwise have been. We must now try to solve the mystery of the smear on the door--which, you may take my word for it, means the mystery of the Diamond also--in some other way. I have decided to see the servants, and to search their thoughts and actions, Mr. Betteredge, instead of searching their wardrobes. Before I begin, however, I want to ask you a question or two. You are an observant man--did you notice anything strange in any of the servants (making due allowance, of course, for fright and fluster), after the loss of the Diamond was found out? Any particular quarrel among them? Any one of them not in his or her usual spirits? Unexpectedly out of temper, for instance? or unexpectedly taken ill?'
I had just time to think of Rosanna Spearman's sudden illness at yesterday's dinner--but not time to