CHAPTER VIII

THE SECOND TRAGEDY (_Friday, November 12_; 8 _a. m._) The day after we had taken leave of Markham at his office the rigor of the weather suddenly relaxed. The sun came out, and the thermometer rose nearly thirty degrees. Toward night of the second day, however, a fine, damp snow began to fall, spreading a thin white blanket over the city; but around eleven the skies were again clear. I mention these facts because they had a curious bearing on the second crime at the Greene mansion. Footprints aga…