Book 1. The Gentleman From Toledo
Book 1. The Gentleman From Toledo - Chapter 1. A Startling Coincidence
_ BOOK I. THE GENTLEMAN FROM TOLEDO
CHAPTER I. A STARTLING COINCIDENCE
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
--MACBETH.
THE town clock of Sibley had just struck twelve. Court had adjourned, and Judge Evans, with one or two of the leading lawyers of the county, stood in the door-way of the court-house discussing in a friendly way the eccentricities of criminals as developed in the case then before the court. Mr. Lord had just ventured the assertion that crime as a fine art was happily confined to France； to which District Attorney Ferris had replied:
"And why? Because atheism has not yet acquired such a hold upon our upper classes that gentlemen think it possible to meddle with such matters. It is only when a student, a doctor, a lawyer, determines to put aside from his path the secret stumbling-bloc

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