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Show Murder as a Fine Art in India N ANGLO-INDIAN' merchant once had an adventure t!.s.t nearly cost him his jiie. Tills experience might well have been a bit of fiction invented by tl.c g-o.-u le C'uineey for use ia his essuy ou "Murder as a Fine Art." This n.orehanl had got along well wilh the natives, but two of his servants had had a ejunrrel over a girl whom thv had wooed. Tiie merchant interfered iu the sfair. The unsuccessful Silitor, eic.e I . ft j . tegsn to make t-ouh and his rival, the hchand. waru-d the merchant i:-;iin.-t him. No;' ir; hnpheu'd for so::..-- r.orlijs. Thou tf.e U'.ei e-1.2 :i! went au.'iv cin b::.-ilie?s. Ou his re' iru 1c v.ris told tint. I.nj had been eai.gl.t iu l.:s b-ei i) nr:d locked up. Te r. e; ci.r :.( v.,-is Ii;ed ard nffr citing we-it to th" (. ,c t wLirf he kr;-t lis rig.irs. It war a lire f.i" e.f t-nk and (Lite g.i's. with a u old - fn! hh.r.r 1 sih.rr ludi.in h- V. ' be v tt n I out '1 jtre-t ( ' e ). r v in t V'- -.. I - ' - 1 .1 i ,ijt, !., -id U.n rlii in 'i.c t'.jnli, en- 1 out l!.:it !.,'.-." one surely had been meddling with the lock. An examination of the keyhole revealed traces if wax. When (hey opened the case th" merchant found everything apparently union, hed. Eiie boxes of cigars were unopened. un-opened. He had opened the sixth before he went aw. iy and removed a few cigars. As he took this box up he noticed on ijthe marks of elirty fingers. Tlie cigars looked if they had rot leeu disturbed. 1I was about to dike one when he noncd that .something was wrong with the head. A second aud a third were like the first. In each a small, almost im-pe:-, , ;i, rc-o Ciorn had hern inserted aod r.:i it was a (bib of brown slime, still moist, the same color as the cigar. Peeling convince'! llint the ng.irs were roi-oj-ed. tb utrri-hact tat dowu and wrote a noic io the poil.e. In half an hour an esli'-or appeared with l.aj under gunrd. The leifhci! sMted the rr.se to the officer and, ' J ""c of tl.c cigars, bunded it to l.aj uilh llie eo'nin.'ind. "dike it nnd smoke it." '1 hi- mnn r fnsr.l. His gull! nn proved. |