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07 - Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers · Unnatural Death

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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven of Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Ham and Brandy, tell
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  Speaker 1: me what you eat, and I will tell you what
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  Speaker 1: you are Pria sabath Well, said Whimsey, as Parker was
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  Speaker 1: ushered in that same evening by Bunter. Have you got
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  Speaker 1: anything fresh? Yes, I've got a new theory of the
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  Speaker 1: crime which knocks yours into a cocked hat. I've got
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  Speaker 1: evidence to support it too. Which crime, by the way, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the Epping forest business. I don't believe the old Dawson
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  Speaker 1: person was murdered at all. That's just an idea of yours.
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  Speaker 1: I see. And you're now going to tell me that
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  Speaker 1: bursa go to bed was got hold of by the
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  Speaker 1: white slave people. How did you know, asked Parker, a
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  Speaker 1: little peevishly, Because Scotland yard have two maggots which crop
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  Speaker 1: up whenever anything happens to a young woman. Either it's
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  Speaker 1: white slavery or dope dens. Sometimes both. You are going
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  Speaker 1: to say it's both, well, I was, As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, it so often is. You know we've traced
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  Speaker 1: the five pound note. That's important anyhow, Yes, it seems
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  Speaker 1: to me to be the clue to the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of a series paid out to a
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  Speaker 1: Missus Forrest living in South Audley Street. I've been round
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  Speaker 1: to make some inquiries. Did you see the lady? No,
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  Speaker 1: she was out, She usually is, I'm told. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: her habits seem to be expensive, irregular and mysterious. She
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  Speaker 1: has an elegantly furnished flat over a flower shop, a
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  Speaker 1: service flat, no one of their quiet kind with a lift,
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  Speaker 1: you work yourself. She only turns up occasionally, mostly in
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  Speaker 1: the evenings, spends a night or two, and departs food
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  Speaker 1: ordered in from Fortnum and Mason's, bills paid promptly by
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  Speaker 1: note or check. Cleaning done by an elderly female who
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  Speaker 1: comes in about eleven, by which time Missus Forrest has
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  Speaker 1: usually gone out. Doesn't anybody ever see her? Oh, dear, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the people in the flat below and the girl at
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  Speaker 1: the flower shop were able to give me quite a
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  Speaker 1: good description of her. Tall, overdressed musquash and those abbreviated
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  Speaker 1: sorts of shoes with jeweled heels. Hardly any uppers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the sort of thing heavily peroxided, strong aroma of oregon
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  Speaker 1: wafted out upon the passerby powder to white for the
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  Speaker 1: fashion and mouth, heavily obscured with sealing wax. Red eyebrows
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  Speaker 1: painted black to startle, not deceive. Fingernails a monument to Krusca,
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  Speaker 1: the pink variety. I'd no idea you'd studied the woman's
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  Speaker 1: page to such good purpose. Charles drives a Renault four seater,
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  Speaker 1: dark green with tapestry doings. Garages just round the corner.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the man and he says the car was
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  Speaker 1: out on the night of the twenty seventh, went out
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  Speaker 1: at eleven thirty, returned about eight the next morning. How
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  Speaker 1: much petrol had been used? We worked that out just
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  Speaker 1: about enough for a run to Epping and back. What's more,
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  Speaker 1: the charwoman says that there had been supper for two
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  Speaker 1: in the flat that night, and three bottles of champagne drunk. Also,
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  Speaker 1: there is a ham in the flat, Braidenamham. How do
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  Speaker 1: you expect the charwoman to know that? But I think
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  Speaker 1: it probably is, as I find from Fortnum and Mason's
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  Speaker 1: that a Braidenham was delivered to missus Forrest's address about
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  Speaker 1: a fortnight ago. That sounds conclusive. I take it you
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  Speaker 1: think Bertha go to bed, was unveiled there for some
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  Speaker 1: undesirable purpose by Missus Forrest, and had supper with her. No,
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  Speaker 1: I should think there was a man. Yes, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Missus f brings the parties together and leaves them to it.
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  Speaker 1: The poor girl is made thoroughly drunk, and then some
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  Speaker 1: untoward happens, yes, shock perhaps, or a shot of dope,
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  Speaker 1: and they bustle her off and get rid of her.
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  Speaker 1: It's quite possible the post mortem may tell us something
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  Speaker 1: about it. Yes, bunter, what is it? The telephone for
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  Speaker 1: mister Parker. My lord, excuse me, said Parker. I asked
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  Speaker 1: the people at the flower shop to ring me here
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  Speaker 1: if Missus Forrest came in. If she's there, would you
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  Speaker 1: like to come round with me? Very much? Parker returned
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  Speaker 1: from the telephone with an air of subdued triumph. She's
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  Speaker 1: just gone up to her flat. Come along, we'll take
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  Speaker 1: a taxi. Not that death rattle of yours. Hurry up,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to miss her. The door of the
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  Speaker 1: flat in South Audley Street was opened by Missus Forest
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  Speaker 1: in person. Whimsy recognized her instantly from the description. On
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  Speaker 1: seeing Parker's card, she made no objection whatever to letting
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  Speaker 1: them in, and led the way into a pink and
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  Speaker 1: mauve sitting room obviously furnished by contract from a Regent
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  Speaker 1: Street establishment. Please sit down, will you smoke? And your friend,
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  Speaker 1: my colleague, mister Templeton, said Parker promptly. Missus Forrest's rather
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  Speaker 1: hard eyes appeared to sum up in a practiced manner
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  Speaker 1: the difference between Parker's seven guinea fashionable lounge suiting tailored
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  Speaker 1: in our own work rooms fits like a made to
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  Speaker 1: measure suit and his colleagues saddle row outlines. But beyond
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  Speaker 1: a slight additional defensiveness of manner, she showed no disturbance.
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  Speaker 1: Parker noted. The glance she's summing us up professionally was
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  Speaker 1: his mental comment. And she's not quite sure whether Wimsy's
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  Speaker 1: an outraged brother or husband or what. Never mind, let
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  Speaker 1: her wonder we may get her rattled. We are engaged, madam.
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  Speaker 1: He began with formal severity on an inquiry relative to
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  Speaker 1: certain events connected with the twenty sixth of last month.
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  Speaker 1: I think you were in town at that time. Missus
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  Speaker 1: Forrest frowned slightly in the effort to recollect Whimsy made
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  Speaker 1: a mental note that she was not as young as
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  Speaker 1: her Beauffont Applegreen Frock made her appear she was certainly
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  Speaker 1: nearing the thirties, and her eyes were mature and aware. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think I was, Yes, certainly, I was in town
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  Speaker 1: for several days about that time. How can I help you.
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  Speaker 1: It is a question of a certain bank note which
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  Speaker 1: has been traced to your possession, said Parker. A five
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  Speaker 1: pound note numbered x Y five eight nine two nine.
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  Speaker 1: It was issued to you by Lloyd's Bank in payment
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  Speaker 1: of a check on the nineteenth. Very likely. I can't
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  Speaker 1: say I remember the number, but I think I catched
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  Speaker 1: a check about that time. I can tell in a
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  Speaker 1: moment by my check book. I don't think it's necessary,
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  Speaker 1: but it would help us very much if you can
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  Speaker 1: recollect to whom you paid it. I see, well, that's
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  Speaker 1: rather difficult. I paid my dressmakers about that time. No,
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  Speaker 1: that was by check. I paid cash to the garage,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and I think there was a five pound
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  Speaker 1: note in that. Then I dined at Ery's with a
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  Speaker 1: woman friend that took the second five pound note I remember,
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  Speaker 1: but there was a third. I drew out twenty five pounds,
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  Speaker 1: three fives and ten ones. Where did the third note go. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: of course, how stupid of me. I put it on
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  Speaker 1: a horse through a commission agent. No, I had nothing
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  Speaker 1: much to do one day, so I went down to Newmarket.
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  Speaker 1: I put the five pounds on some creature called bright Eye,
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  Speaker 1: or at a Boy or some name like that, at
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  Speaker 1: fifty to one. Of course, the wretched animal didn't win.
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  Speaker 1: They never do. A man in the train gave me
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  Speaker 1: the tip and wrote the name down for me. I
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  Speaker 1: handed it to the nearest bookie. I saw a funny,
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  Speaker 1: little gray haired man with a hoarse voice, and that
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  Speaker 1: was the last I saw of it. Could you remember
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  Speaker 1: which day it was? I think it was Saturday, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it was. Thank you very much, Missus Forrest.
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  Speaker 1: It will be a great help if we can trace
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  Speaker 1: those notes. One of them has turned up since in
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  Speaker 1: other circumstances. May I know what the circumstances are? Or
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  Speaker 1: is it an official secret? Parker hesitated. He rather wished
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  Speaker 1: now that he had demanded point blank at the start,
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  Speaker 1: how Missus Forrest's five pound note had come to be
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  Speaker 1: found on the dead body of the waitress at Epping.
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  Speaker 1: Taken by surprise, the woman might have got flustered. Now
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  Speaker 1: he had let her entrench herself securely behind this horse
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  Speaker 1: story impossible to follow up the history of a bank
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  Speaker 1: note handed to an unknown bookie at a race meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Before he could speak, Whimsy broke in for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in a high petulant voice, which quite took his
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  Speaker 1: friend back. You're not getting anywhere with all this, he complained.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care a continental curse about your beastly note,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure Sylvia doesn't. Who is Sylvia? Demanded Missus Forrest,
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  Speaker 1: with considerable amazement. Who is Sylvia? What is? She? Gambled
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  Speaker 1: Whimsy irrepressibly. Shakespeare always has the right word, hasn't he?
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  Speaker 1: But God, bless my soul, it's no laughing matter. It's
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  Speaker 1: very serious and you've no business to laugh at it.
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  Speaker 1: Sylvia is very much upset, and the doctor is afraid
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  Speaker 1: it may have an effect on her heart. You may
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  Speaker 1: not know it, Missus Forrest, but Sylvia Lindhurst is my cousin.
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  Speaker 1: And what she wants to know and what we all
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  Speaker 1: want to know. Don't interrupt me, inspector. All this shilly
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  Speaker 1: shallying doesn't get us anywhere. I want to know, Missus Forrest,
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  Speaker 1: who was it dining here with you? On the night
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  Speaker 1: of April twenty sixth. Who was it? Who was it?
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell me that? This time? Missus Forrest was
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  Speaker 1: visibly taken aback, Even under the thick coat of powder.
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  Speaker 1: They could see the red flush up into her cheeks
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  Speaker 1: and ebb away, while her eyes took on an expression
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  Speaker 1: of something more than alarm, a kind of vicious fury,
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  Speaker 1: such as one may see in those of a cornered cat.
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  Speaker 1: On the twenty sixth, she faltered, I can't I knew it,
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  Speaker 1: cried Whimsey, and that girl Evelyn was sure of it too.
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  Speaker 1: Who was it, Missus Forest, answer me that there there
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  Speaker 1: was no one, said Missus Forrest, with a thick gasp.
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  Speaker 1: Oh come, Missus Forrest, think again, said Parker, taking his
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  Speaker 1: cue promptly, you aren't going to tell us that you
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  Speaker 1: account by yourself or three bottles of viveglico and two
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  Speaker 1: people's dinners, not forgetting the ham put in whimsy with
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  Speaker 1: fussy self importance, the Bradenham ham, specially cooked and sent
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  Speaker 1: up by Fortnam and Mason. Now, Missus Forrest Weed a moment,
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  Speaker 1: just a moment, I'll tell you everything. The woman's hands
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  Speaker 1: clutched at the pink silk cushions, making little hot tight creases.
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  Speaker 1: I would do you mind getting me something to drink
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  Speaker 1: in the dining room Through there on the sideboard, Whimsy
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  Speaker 1: got up quickly and disappeared into the next room. He
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  Speaker 1: took rather a long time. Parker thought Missus Forrest was
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  Speaker 1: lying back in a collapsed attitude. But her breathing was
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  Speaker 1: more controlled, and she was, he thought, recovering her wits,
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  Speaker 1: making up a story, he muttered savagely to himself. However,
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  Speaker 1: he could not, without brutality, press her. At the moment,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Peter, behind the folding doors was making a good
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  Speaker 1: deal of noise, chinking the glasses and fumbling about. However,
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  Speaker 1: before very long he was back. Excuse my taking such
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  Speaker 1: a time, he apologized, handing Missus Forrest a glass of
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  Speaker 1: brandy and soda. Couldn't find the siphon. Always was a
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  Speaker 1: bit wool gathering, you know. Oh, my friends say so,
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  Speaker 1: staring at me all the time. What and then I
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  Speaker 1: slashed a lot of soda on the sideboard and shaken
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  Speaker 1: nerves all to pieces, and so on, feelin better? That's right,
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  Speaker 1: put it down. That's the stuff to pull you together.
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  Speaker 1: How about another little one? What? Oh, rot. It can't
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  Speaker 1: hurt you mind if I have one myself. I'm feeling
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  Speaker 1: a bit flustered, upsettin delicate business and all that. Just
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  Speaker 1: another spot, that's the idea, he trotted out again, glass
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  Speaker 1: in hand. While Parker fidgeted the presence of amateur detectives
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  Speaker 1: was sometimes an embarrassment. Whimsy clattered in again, this time
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  Speaker 1: with more common sense, bringing decanter, siphon and three glasses
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  Speaker 1: bodily on a tray. Now now, said Whimsy, Now we're
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  Speaker 1: feeling better. Do you think you can answer our question?
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  Speaker 1: Missus Forrest? May I know, first of all, what right
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  Speaker 1: you have to ask it? Parker shot an exasperated glance
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  Speaker 1: at his friend. This came of giving people time to think, right,
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  Speaker 1: burst in Whimsy. Right, of course, we've a right. The
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  Speaker 1: police have a right to ask questions when anything's the matter.
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  Speaker 1: Here's murder the matter, right, indeed, murder. A curious intent
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  Speaker 1: look came into her eyes. Parker could not place it,
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  Speaker 1: but Whimsy recognized it instantly. He had seen it last
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  Speaker 1: on the face of a great financier as he took
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  Speaker 1: up his pen to sign a contract. Whimsy had been
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  Speaker 1: called to witness the signature and had refused. It was
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  Speaker 1: a contract that ruined thousands of people. Incidentally, the financier
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  Speaker 1: had been murdered soon after, and Whimsy had declined to
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  Speaker 1: investigate the matter with a sentence from Dumain, let pass
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  Speaker 1: the justice of God. I'm afraid, missus Forrest was saying
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  Speaker 1: that in that case, I can't help you. I did
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  Speaker 1: have a friend dining with me on the twenty sixth,
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  Speaker 1: but he has not, so far as I know, been murdered,
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  Speaker 1: nor has he murdered anybody. It was a man, then,
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  Speaker 1: said Parker. Missus Forrest bowed her head with a kind
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  Speaker 1: of mocking ruefulness. I live apart from my husband, she murmured.
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  Speaker 1: I am sorry, said Parker, to have to press for
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  Speaker 1: this gentleman's name and address. Isn't that asking rather much?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps if you would give me further details, Well, you see,
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  Speaker 1: cut in Whimsy again, if we could just know for
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  Speaker 1: certain it wasn't Lyndehurst. My cousin is so frightfully upset,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, and that Evel and Girley is making trouble.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, of course, one doesn't want it to go
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  Speaker 1: any further. But actually Sylvia lost her head completely. She
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  Speaker 1: made a savage attack on poor old Lyndhurst with a
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  Speaker 1: revolver in fact only fortunately she is a shocking bad shot.
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  Speaker 1: It went over his shoulder and broke a race most
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  Speaker 1: distressing thing, a fammy rose jar worth thousands, and of
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  Speaker 1: course it was smashed to atoms. Sylvia is really hardly
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  Speaker 1: responsible when she's in a temper. And we thought, as
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  Speaker 1: Lynde Hurst was actually traced to this block of flats,
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  Speaker 1: if you could give us definite proof it wasn't him,
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  Speaker 1: it might calm her down and prevent murder being done,
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  Speaker 1: don't you know, Because though they might call it guilty
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  Speaker 1: but insane, still it would be awfully awkward. Having once
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  Speaker 1: cousin in Broadmoor, a first cousin, and really a very
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  Speaker 1: nice woman when she's not irritated. Missus Forrest gradually softened
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  Speaker 1: into a faint smile. I think I understand the position,
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  Speaker 1: mister Templeton, she said, And if I give you a name,
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  Speaker 1: it would be in strict confidence, I presume, of course,
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  Speaker 1: of course, said Whimsey, dear me, I'm sure it's uncommonly
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  Speaker 1: kind of you. You'll swear you aren't spies of my
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  Speaker 1: husband's She said quickly. I am trying to divorce him.
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  Speaker 1: How do I know this isn't a trap, madam, said Whimsy,
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  Speaker 1: with intense gravity. I swear to you, on my honor
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  Speaker 1: as a gentleman, that I have not the slightest connection
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  Speaker 1: with your husband. I have never even heard of him before.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Forrest shook her head. I don't think, after all,
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  Speaker 1: she said, it would be much good of my giving
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  Speaker 1: you the name. In any case, if you asked him
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  Speaker 1: where he'd been, he would say no, wouldn't he? And
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  Speaker 1: if you've been sent by my husband, you've got all
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  Speaker 1: the evidence you want already. But I give you my
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  Speaker 1: solemn assurance, mister Templeton, that I know nothing about your
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  Speaker 1: friend mister Lyndhurst. Major Lyndhurst put in Whimsy plaintively. And
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  Speaker 1: if Missus Lyndhurst is not satisfied and likes to come
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  Speaker 1: round and see me, I will do my best to
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  Speaker 1: satisfy her of the fact. Will that do? Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much? Said Whimsy. I'm sure it's as much as
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  Speaker 1: any one could expect. You'll forgive my abruptness, won't you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm rather er nervously constituted, and the whole business is
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  Speaker 1: exceedingly upsetting. Good afternoon, Come on, inspector. It's quite all right,
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  Speaker 1: you see, it's quite all right. I'm really very much
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  Speaker 1: obliged uncommonly, so please don't trouble to see us out.
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  Speaker 1: He teetered nervously down the narrow hallway in his imbecile
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  Speaker 1: and well bred way, Parker following with a policeman like stiffness.
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  Speaker 1: No sooner, however, had the flat door closed behind them,
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  Speaker 1: than Whimsy seized his friend by the arm and bundled
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  Speaker 1: him helter skelter into the lift. I thought we should
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  Speaker 1: never get away, he panted, Now quick, how do we
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  Speaker 1: get round the back of these flats? What do you
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  Speaker 1: want with the back? Demanded Parker, annoyed, And I wish
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't stampede me like this. I've no business to
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  Speaker 1: let you come with me on a job at all,
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  Speaker 1: and if I do, you might have the decency to
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  Speaker 1: keep quiet, right you are, said Whimsy, cheerfully. Just let's
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  Speaker 1: do this little bit and you can get all the
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  Speaker 1: virtuous indignation off your chest later on. Round here, I
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  Speaker 1: fancy up this back alley, step lively and mind the
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  Speaker 1: dust bin one two three four Here we are, just
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  Speaker 1: keep a lookout for the passing stranger. Will you selecting
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  Speaker 1: a back window, which he judged to belong to missus
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  Speaker 1: Forest's flat, Whimsy promptly grasped a drain pipe and began
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  Speaker 1: to swarm up it with the agility of a cat burglar.
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  Speaker 1: About fifteen feet from the ground, he paused, reached up
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  Speaker 1: and appeared to detach something with a quick jerk, and
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  Speaker 1: then fled very gingerly to the ground, again, holding his
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  Speaker 1: right hand at a cautious distance from his body as
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  Speaker 1: though it were breakable. And indeed, to his amazement, Parker
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  Speaker 1: observed that Whimsy now held a long stemmed glass in
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  Speaker 1: his fingers, similar to those from which they had drunk
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  Speaker 1: in Missus Forest's sitting room. What on earth, said Parker. Hush,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Hawkshaw, the detective gathering fingerprints. Here we come Awa,
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  Speaker 1: sailing and gathering prince in May. That's why I took
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  Speaker 1: the glass back. I brought a different one in the
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  Speaker 1: second time. Sorry, I had to do this little athletic
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  Speaker 1: stunt much The only cotton reel I could find hadn't
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  Speaker 1: much on it. When I changed the glass, I tiptoed
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  Speaker 1: into the bathroom and hung it out of the window.
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  Speaker 1: Hope she hasn't been in there since just brush my
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  Speaker 1: bags down, will you, old man? Gently? Don't touch the glass?
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  Speaker 1: What the devil do you want fingerprints for? You're a
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  Speaker 1: grateful sort of person? Why for all you know, Missus
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  Speaker 1: Forrest is someone the yard has been looking for for years,
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  Speaker 1: And anyway, you could compare the prince with those on
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  Speaker 1: the bass bottle if any besides, you never know where
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  Speaker 1: finger prints mayn't come in handy. They're excellent things to
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  Speaker 1: have about the house. Coast clear right, hail a taxi,
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  Speaker 1: will you? I can't wave my hand with this glass
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  Speaker 1: in It looks so silly, don't you know? I say, well,
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  Speaker 1: I saw something else the first time I went out
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  Speaker 1: for the drinks. I had a peep into her bedroom. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think I've found in the washstand drawer?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: What a hypodermic syringe? Really? Oh? Yes? And an innocent
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  Speaker 1: little box of ampulae with a doctor's prescription headed the
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  Speaker 1: injection Missus forest One, to be injected when the pain
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: is very severe. What do you think of that? Tell
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you when we've got the results of that post mortem,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: said Parker, really impressed. You didn't bring the prescription ized. No,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't inform the lady who we were or
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  Speaker 1: what we were after, or ask her permission to carry
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  Speaker 1: away the family crystal. But I made a note of
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  Speaker 1: the chemist's address. Did you ejaculated Parker? Occasionally? My lad,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you have some glimmerings of sound detective sense. End of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: chapter seven,