A heavy carved boss had detached itself from the mullioned ceiling and fallen upon the head of the sleeping child; the boss bore a shield on which was a golden disc, bearing in its centre a red skull. Rupert was dead! One of the servants found the grey coat lying on the lane outside; his attention was attracted by something which had found its way beneath the lining of the skirt. There was a hole in the pocket where the sewing had given way, permitting the object to slip through: the object was a small, flat leathern case. It had been placed in the pocket, for fun, by Rupert on that day when he had played with the things in the safe. Until flung from the window, the grey coat had never been away from Grange except during the short time when John Puddifoot had been owner. J. F. SULLIVAN. The concluding article on "How Composers Work" will appear in the next number. Transcriber's Notes: Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were silently corrected. Punctuation normalized. Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed. Italics markup is enclosed in _underscores_. Title page added by transcriber. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Strand Magazine, Vol. VII, Issue 39, March 1894, by Various