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The two strangers with Tuxall's aid, had prepared the fake meteor with a view to exploiting the star-man. Bailey had literally tumbled into the plot. They didn't know how much he had seen. The whole affair hinged on his being kept quiet. So they took him along. All that I had to do, then, was to find the deviser of the three-foot poster. He was sure to be Bailey's abductor."
"But what does all this talk of people at work in the dark, and arson, and a mysterious creature tied in a tree lead to?" "It leads," said Average Jones, "to a very large rock, much scorched, and with a peculiar carving on it, which now lies imbedded in the earth beneath Tuxall's barn." "If you've seen that," said Farley, "it's all up." "I haven't seen it. I've inferred it.
If you were to visit Tuxall's barn, you would undoubtedly find on the boulder underneath it a carving resembling a human form, a hoax more ambitious than the Cardiff Giant. He carted the rock in from some quarry and did the scorching and carving himself, I suppose." "And you discovered all that in a half-day's visit to Harwick?" asked the Reverend Mr. Prentice incredulously.
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