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Manderton, sir, he had not. But Lady Margaret had shown it to him. It had simply stated that Miss Trevert had gone off to the Continent and would be back in a few days. Again the detective turned to Robin at his elbow. "These country bumpkins!" he said savagely. "I must go to the Yard and get Humphries on the 'phone. He may have telegraphed me about it.
"Do you mean to tell me," protested Robin, growing more and more puzzled, "that Jeekes told Miss Trevert this offensive and deliberate lie in your presence!" "Well," remarked Mr. Manderton slowly, "I don't know about his saying this in my presence exactly. But I heard him tell her for all that. Walls have ears, you know particularly if the door is ajar!"
"He told me about that fat butler's evidence," he said to himself; "he put me wise about that window being open; he gave me the office about the paint on the finger-nails of Mr. He ticked off each point on his fingers with the stem of his pipe. "Why?" said Mr. Manderton aloud, addressing a laurel-bush. Mr.
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