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"Surely, sir," he burst forth at last, "you're not thinking this goes to indicate any deductions or datas showing she's guilty?" "I'm dashed if I know what to think," murmured Carrington still lost in thought. Suddenly he turned his eyeglass on the other. "By Jove!" he exclaimed, "the day before yesterday I passed that girl riding on a bicycle towards Keldale House after dark!
Bisset was shown into the laird of Stanesland's smoking room and addressed Mr. Cromarty with a happy blend of consciousness of his own importance and respect for the laird's. "I have taken the liberty of calling, sir, for to lay before you a few fresh datas." "Fire away," said the laird.
Do you know where she had been?" "Into the town, sir. I knew she was out, of course, and she just mentioned afterwards where she had been." "Have you any idea whom she saw or what she did?" Bisset shook his head. "I have no datas, sir, that's the plain fac'." "But you can't think of any likely errand to take her in so late in the afternoon?" "No, sir.
Literas vestrae, Maiestatis superiori anno 1567, decimo die mensis Aprilis datas, vestri mercatores Stephanus Twerdico, et Pheodata Pogorella, qui has nostras perferunt, nobis tradidere.
"I've heard, sir, one or two stories which I was hoping might have something in them." "I've heard about half a dozen and gone into them all, and there's nothing in one of them." "Half a dozen stories?" Bisset's eye began to look hopeful again. "Well, sir, perhaps if I was to go into some of them again in the light of my fresh datas, they might wear, as it were, a different aspect."
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