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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Veritable mysteries!" said Miss Penkridge, with a sniff. "The world's full of 'em! How many murders go undetected how many burglaries are never traced how many forgeries are done and never found out? Piles of 'em as the police could tell you. And talking about forgeries, what about old Barrett, who was the great man at Pumpney, when your mother and I were girls there?
He was everything except honest. But nobody knew that until it was too late. He was a solicitor by profession, but that was a mere nothing in comparison. He was chief spirit in the place. I don't know how many times he wasn't mayor of Pumpney. He held all sorts of offices. He was a big man at the parish church vicar's warden, and all that.
That was a fine case of crime going on for years and years and years, undetected aye, and not even suspected!" "What was it?" asked Viner, who had begun by being amused and was now becoming interested. "Who was Barrett?" "If you'd known Pumpney when we lived there," replied Miss Penkridge, "you wouldn't have had to ask twice who Mr. Samuel Barrett was. He was everybody.
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