But easy writing’s curst hard reading.
Sheridan.
[10. The Professor Gives a Lesson]
Cardoni said he saw the kidnapers around a table as he peered through the keyhole. Yale locks do not have keyholes.
Kelley was justified in throwing him out, don’t you think? The class found this an easy one—did you?
Since your eyes are so sharpe that you cannot onely looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde. Lyly.
[11. Upstairs and Down]
The policeman ran through the hall and unlocked the kitchen door.
The doors to the porch and cellar were locked on the inside. Had the old lady committed suicide, she could not have locked the door leading to the hall from the outside.
The murderer, in leaving, locked this door and forgot to remove the key. The inevitable slip!