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Updated: May 17, 2025

If I had simply pretended to be telephoning, the people at the exchange could have told at once that there hadn't been a call from White Gables that night. 'One of the first things I did was to make that enquiry, said Trent. 'That telephone call, and the wire you sent from Southampton to the dead man to say Harris hadn't turned up, and you were returning-I particularly appreciated both those.

E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley - Trent's Last Case