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Updated: June 23, 2025
I said to Miss Foley, I said, up in the tank-room: 'Was that a ring at the door? But she said it wasn't." "I've been a little deaf since I was in prison," said Jane Foley. "And now we come down and find you here! I I hope I've done right." This, falteringly, from Miss Ingate. "Of course you have, you silly old thing," Audrey reassured her. "It's splendid!"
She saw how idiotic she had been not to warn Jane by means of loud conversation with the detective. "That's the tank-room," she said loudly. "I'm afraid it's locked." "Oh!" murmured Mr. Hurley negligently, and he turned the searchlight of his gaze upon the three bedrooms, which he examined as carefully as he had examined anything in the house.
Friends of mine there keep a punt on Mozewater, and I let them store the sail and things in the tank-room. There's plenty of room. I give them the key because that's more satisfactory. The tank-room isn't wanted at all, you see, while I'm away from home." "Who are these friends?" "Mr. and Mrs. Spatt," said Audrey at a venture. "I see," said the detective.
"I'd come I do come, you know, to keep an eye on things as you asked me I'd come, and we were just having a cosy little chat in the tank-room. Aguilar's gone to Colchester to get a duplicate key of the front gates. He left me his, so I could get in and lock up after myself, and he put the water on to boil before leaving.
Mr. Hurley had been to Frinton and ascertained that the Spatt story as to the tank-room was an invention, and had returned with a search warrant and some tools. But in another ten seconds she was equally sure that nothing of the sort could have happened, for it was an axiom with her that Aguilar's masterly lying, based on masterly listening at an attic door, had convinced Mr.
Bumble moved the ottoman at the same time, and though she meant to be very careful, she bumped the wounded foot terribly when going over the door-sills, but Mrs. Barlow pretended it didn't hurt her, and thanked the children lovingly for their assistance. "Now, Bob," she said, "run and help your father, I suppose he's up in the tank-room investigating the source of that waterfall.
She went within the room and he pushed the door to, without, however, quite shutting it. "Now about the tank-room, Miss Moze," he began quietly. "You say it's locked?" "Yes," said the quaking Audrey. "As a matter of form I'd better just look in. Will you kindly let me have the key?" "I can't," said Audrey. "Why not?" Audrey acquired tranquillity as she went on: "It's at Frinton.
Hurley passed each of them with a careless glance within. At the end of the corridor, in obscurity, was the door of the tank-room. "What's this?" he asked abruptly. And he knocked nonchalantly on the door of the tank-room. Audrey was acutely alarmed lest Jane Foley should respond, thinking the knock was that of a friend.
He suggested Miss Foley should have a bed in the tank-room, so that if there was any trouble all the bedrooms should look innocent." "Did he tell you I'd come here to see him not long since?" Audrey demanded. "And why didn't you pop in to see me? I was hurt when I got your note." "Did he tell you?" "Of course he didn't. He never tells anybody anything.
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