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Updated: June 28, 2025
A man swoons, immediately he is picked up by the doctor, who gives him a harmless drug that is to say, harmless in small quantities. In five seconds the man is dead. At the inquest we find he has been poisoned cyanide is found in his pocket. And who is this man? Obviously the identical person who witnessed the murder of John Millinborn and whom we have been trying to find ever since that crime."
"John Millinborn left a fortune for you and I think that you might as well know the truth now the money was left in trust. You were not to know that you were an heiress until you were married. He was afraid of some fortune-hunter ruining your young life as Prédeaux ruined your mother's. That was thoughtful of him.
He turned swiftly. It was John Millinborn's voice. "Quick come...." The doctor had leapt into the room and made his way to the bed. Millinborn was sitting up, and as the lawyer moved swiftly in the doctor's tracks he saw his wide eyes staring. "Jim, he has...." His head dropped forward on his breast and the doctor lowered him slowly to the pillow. "What is it, John? Speak to me, old man...."
He said something, but instantly recovered his self-possession. "Keep quiet," he said with professional sternness. "Yes, you are the heiress of an interesting gentleman named John Millinborn." "John Millinborn!" she gasped. "The man who was murdered!" "The man who was killed," he corrected. "'Murder' is a stupid, vulgar word. Yes, my dear, you are his heiress.
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