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"I've never been able to bring myself to think that either you or Mallalieu 'ud murder a man in cold blood, as Kitely was murdered," he said. "As regards Stoner, I've firmly held to it that Mallalieu struck him in a passion. But I've always felt this you, or Mallalieu, or both of you, know more about the Kitely affair than you've ever told!"
Mallalieu was Cotherstone's partner. Mallalieu went to Northrop's house to play cards at ten o'clock. It might be well to find out, quietly, what Mallalieu was doing with himself up to ten o'clock. But the main thing was what was Cotherstone doing during that hour of absence? And had Cotherstone any reason of his own, or shared with his partner for wishing to get rid of Kitely?
Then to Vicenza, Padua, and Venice again. Shall you come to town, anywhere near town, soon? I shall be off again as soon as my book is out, whenever that will be. I never read that book of Miss Martineau's, so can't understand what you mean. Macready is looking well; I just saw him the other day for a minute after the play; his Kitely was Kitely superb from his flat cap down to his shining shoes.
"Not likely to let things out, I suppose?" continued Brereton. "Not he! He was a regular old steel trap, Kitely was shut tight!" said Pett. "And I suppose you've no theory, no idea of your own about his murder?" asked Brereton, who was watching the little man closely. "Have you formed any ideas or theories?" Pett half-closed his eyes as he turned them on his questioner.
For the doctor said to him what he had said to Cotherstone and to Bent and to the rest of the group in the wood that whoever had strangled Kitely had had experience in that sort of grim work before or else he was a sailorman who had expert knowledge of tying knots.
The superintendent looked at Harborough and nodded. And Harborough took that nod at its true meaning, and he spoke readily. "This!" he said, turning to the new-comers, and finally addressing himself to Mallalieu. "And it's what I've already said to the superintendent here. I know nothing about what's happened to Kitely.
Miss Pett accordingly desires that I, as her legal representative, should lose no time in putting before you the true state of the case as regards her relations with Kitely, deceased, and I accordingly, sir, in the presence of our friend, the superintendent, whom I have already spoken to outside, desire to tell you what the truth is. Informally, you understand, Mr. Brereton, informally!"
Kitely, like all men who dabble in antiquarian pursuits, knew a bit of Latin, and naturally made an occasional airing of his knowledge. With a sharp exclamation of delight, Brereton turned over the pages of that queer record of crime and detection until he came to one over which the figure 1881 stood out boldly. A turn or two more of pages, and he had found what he wanted.
Her glance rested on it for only the fraction of a second; then it went back to Bent's face. "I'd better tell you everything," said Bent quietly. "Mr. Kitely has been strangled. And the piece of cord with which it was done is so the police here say just such a piece as might have been cut off one of the cords which your father uses in his trade, you know."
I'd give something, you know, to know what you really think about it." "I've not yet settled in my own mind what I do think about it," said Brereton. "But I'll suggest a few things to you which you can think over at your leisure. What motive could Harborough have had for killing Kitely?
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