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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: particularly on the lavatory at the foot of the stairs connecting
the upper and lower laboratories. This room he found to be
locked and the key, a large one, had disappeared. He recollected
that when the police officers had paid their visit to the col-
lege, the Professor had diverted their attention as they were
about to inspect this room. The only method by which, unknown to
the Professor and without breaking open the door, Littlefield
could examine the vault of this retiring room was by going down
to the basement floor of the college and digging a hole through
the wall into the vault itself. This he determined to do.
On Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, Littlefield commenced operations
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