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A child could have found the road, however, for it was just the highway to Newmarket; and when I had cruised along it a couple of hundred yards, to the very gates of Lord Hailsham's house, I turned about and stood off at the spinney's edge, perhaps three hundred yards away. Then I just lighted a cigarette and waited, as I had been told to do. It was a funny job, upon my word.
Walter, and the valet Marchant, they were but two of the company. And why they came to engage me was because of a motor accident to the man Walter, which put him out of the running when the burglary job at Lord Hailsham's was to be undertaken. Kennaway, the detective, was three months in hospital after his little lot.
But it's going to stop, Britten, and stop to-night. She's waiting for this car over at Fawley Hill, which isn't half a mile from this very door." He came a step nearer and thrust the ten-pound note under my very nose. "It's Lord Hailsham's place straight up the hill to the right and on to the high road from Bishop's Stortford.
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