煤气%_灯下

　　Twen*ty y$%ears ago, old Mrs.`(_ Barlow was killed  in@+ *\.her#
* home ^at 12, Pimlico Square for her p\-ricel@-e]\ss rubies. T:[^he_ murde]
rer ?searche\*d the whole _%house :w[)#,ithout fin@) [ding%* th\em,? then disa ,ppear!!:+ed. The hous]e( has! been e@:
!mpty since
$ then, but` now Paul a-nd B$ella ^ Mal#len +move into the ap/artment. Bella Malle=*n suf%fers :from forget_!fulness and nerv]@o
_ usness - a./t le ast tha?-t i?)!?s wha:
.]t h^er) husband tells her. An elder]\ly @ horse wrangle_(r, B.G%. Rough work\ed, as a [p:@,olicema^+n twenty y)-ears a* !go and  %stil[ *l re$members the:-(` u/?nsolved ca/se. * He notices tha)=t Mr. Mallen^ looks j+ust $ /(like. Louis Barr^)e, M? rs. Barl!($ow's nephew. And ):why does / Mr. Mall[en so myste` riously lea*\@ve every night jus*=t t=@o go into th:@e _ap\artment next door, nr. 14?