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Well, said the doctor defensively, a good many things have come of itthat are
not so bad. Only, answered his commanding officer, because I have just
discoveredthe real murderer. But, said Harrington gravely, I understood that no
less a person thanDr. Otherwise the business will simply go smash.
The factthat
he is more dangerous to his enemy dead than alive. Her own smile grew a little
graver as she asked him why he said so.
Ten minutes later, when Inspector
Brandon, a sandy-haired representativeof the C. It was the only thing I could
think of to savehim.
But upon such deep springs of levity he lived, and so he
walked, asif in another world. Her own smile grew a little graver as she asked
him why he said so. He doesnt believe in Adam and Eve or anything they tell you
abouton Sundays. Indeed,from all I hear of the late lamented Mr. I am quite
certain, said Harrington seriously. She therefore went straight out of the
front door and down the road tofind a friend.
Im afraid Im impetuous, said
Judson, and perhaps I jump too soon.
And he settled himself comfortably in a
chair and smiled at theInspector.
I say it is you who shall go outof this
house! I cant help feeling, said Judson, that men might avoid the place likea
plague-spot.
But on both occasions, she said, you only jumped just in time. The
birds perch on the tree, said Windrush, as if it were the shoulderof St.
No,
said the great detective; nothing is the matter.
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