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                    BY RODRIGUES OTTOLENGUI


=An Artist in Crime.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

=A Conflict of Evidence.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

=A Modern Wizard.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

=The Crime of the Century.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.

=Final Proof, or, the Value of Evidence.= 16^o, $1.00; paper, 50 cts.


                          G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

                           NEW YORK & LONDON




                              FINAL PROOF
                                   OR
                         THE VALUE OF EVIDENCE


                                   BY
                             R. OTTOLENGUI


       AUTHOR OF "AN ARTIST IN CRIME," "A CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE,"
                    "THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY," ETC.


                             [Illustration]


                          G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
                          NEW YORK AND LONDON
                        The Knickerbocker Press
                                  1898




                            Copyright, 1898
                                   BY
                          G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
                  Entered at Stationers' Hall, London


                   The Knickerbocker Press, New York




                               PREFATORY


The first meeting between Mr. Barnes, the detective, and Robert Leroy
Mitchel, the gentleman who imagines himself to be able to outdo
detectives in their own line of work, was fully set forth in the
narrative entitled _An Artist in Crime_.