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"You persist in saying that you got it in America?" "I must." "When?" "After you left the Quains." "How?" she propounded triumphantly. "I can't tell you, except vaguely. If you'll be content with the substance of the story, lacking details, for the present " "For the present? You mean you'll tell me the whole truth ?" "Sometime, yes.
"How could it have been yours? It was taken in London a year ago. I sent copies only to personal friends who, I know, would not give them away." She thought it over and added: "The Quains had no copy; it's quite impossible that one should have got to America." "None the less," he maintained stubbornly, "it's mine, and I got it in America." "I can hardly be expected to believe that." "I'm sorry."
A window had been forced in the rear of the house and a trail of burnt matches and candle-grease between that entrance and the door of Amber's room, together with the somewhat curious circumstance that nothing whatever was missing from the personal effects of the Quains, forced him to make an explanation.
He chuckled cheerfully over this triumph of deductive reasoning. "You are visiting the Quains for a few days, while en route for India with some friends whose name I've forgotten " "The Rolands," she prompted involuntarily. "Thank you.... The Rolands, who are stopping in New York.
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