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A fine rain now made her still more dismal; vans with the odd names of those engaged in odd industries Sprules, Manufacturer of Saw-dust; Grabb, to whom no piece of waste paper comes amiss fell flat as a bad joke; bold lovers, sheltered behind one cloak, seemed to her sordid, past their passion; the flower women, a contented company, whose talk is always worth hearing, were sodden hags; the red, yellow, and blue flowers, whose heads were pressed together, would not blaze.
"Sufficient signs to bear out the young woman's statement?" "Quite, sir. There is upon close examination distinct evidence of a rope having been worked against the hinge of the window." "Very good, Sprules. We may consider that point settled," Major Freeman said.
"I am glad this part of the mystery is so satisfactorily settled," the chief constable remarked. "Now we have the issue narrowed. Well, Sprules?" The detective had appeared at the door. "I have examined the ironwork of the window, sir," he said, "and have found under the magnifying-glass traces of the fraying of a rope as though caused by friction against the iron staple."
Morriston, of setting a party of my men to search the grounds for the rope; they will begin by dragging the little lake." "By all means," Morriston assented. "Detective Sprules," the chief proceeded, "would like to make another examination of the ironwork of the window. May he go up now?" "Certainly," Morriston answered, and the detective left the room. Gifford spoke.
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