List of Illustrations

List of Illustrations

1. A page torn from a notebook, on which is marked a line of fifteen small figures of dancing men in various attitudes and positions, some holding up black flags.

2. Second set of hieroglyphics, a line of nine small figures of dancing men in various attitudes.

3. Third set of hieroglyphics, a line of nine small figures of dancing men in various attitudes, one holding up a black flag.

4. Fourth set of hieroglyphics, five small figures of dancing men in various attitudes.

5. Fifth set of hieroglyphics, two lines of dancing men, one above the other. Both rows have twelve men, and in each row two men are holding up black flags.

6. Sixth set of hieroglyphics, fourteen little dancing men, one upside down. Three of them are holding up black flags, including the upside-down figure.

7. Holmes’ map of the neighbourhood of the school.

8. Plan of the house at Yoxley Old Place.

9. The strip of blotting-paper.

10. The reverse of the blotting paper.