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Ham said, “Monk, the thing does look funny at that.”

Monk jerked his head. “Come over here in the corner.” They retired to the end of the lobby. Monk
glanced upward thoughtfully. “Can that what-is-it you call your chimpanzee climb?”

“Climb?” Ham said. “Sure, he can climb! Haven't you seen chimpanzees swing from tree to tree? They
even do it by their tails. The way your not-so-far-back ancestors did it.”

“Can he climb up into those chandeliers?”

“Sure. Why?”

“I was just thinking.”

Ham took another look at the chandeliers and said, “Wait a minute. Chemistry can climb into one of
those chandeliers-the one where they found the body. There is no way of reaching the others without a
ladder, unless you are a bird.”

“That,” Monk said, “is my point.”
“You better be a little clearer.”

“Suppose,” Monk said, “somebody tossed something up into one of those chandeliers to get rid of it in a
hurry; to hide it where it wouldn't be seen, but where he could come back and get it later.”

Ham narrowed one eye thoughtfully. “Could be. Could be, at that.”

“Would he be likely to toss it into the chandelier anybody could reach?”

“Not,” said Ham, “if he was a foresighted fellow.”

“But supposing,” said Monk, “you were another fellow, and you came to look for the thing that had been
tossed in one of the chandeliers, without knowing for sure which chandelier it was. Which one would you
look into first?”

Ham gave the lobby an examination. “I would look into the one I figured I could see into. Then I would
probably figure on coming back later with a ladder.”

Monk nodded emphatically.”

“There,” he said, “you are.”

“Where am I, exactly?”

“You are standing here,” Monk told him, “and you have just listened to the way a great deductive mind
works. I will deduct further. Suppose the someone, who knew the fellow was coming to look in the
chandeliers, wanted to get rid of this fellow. Think of what the someone would do. He would fix his death
trap in the chandelier that could be reached easily.”

Ham endeavored, without success, to find a hole in this logic.