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... inspector had got his note - book out , and was setting down her replies in the methodical manner peculiar to his profession . Why did he not warn her , as she had a vague idea he ought to do , that she need not answer anything of a ...
... inspector had got his note - book out , and was setting down her replies in the methodical manner peculiar to his profession . Why did he not warn her , as she had a vague idea he ought to do , that she need not answer anything of a ...
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... inspector here asked permission to look over the house and premises , and for the present took his leave . Maggie could not help speculating within herself as to the result of his investigations ; he could hardly expect to find John ...
... inspector here asked permission to look over the house and premises , and for the present took his leave . Maggie could not help speculating within herself as to the result of his investigations ; he could hardly expect to find John ...
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... inspector , sinking his voice to a confidential whisper , " that there is a means of communicating with the cellar beneath this room , independently of the door , so that one might go and help one's self to wine without the know- ledge ...
... inspector , sinking his voice to a confidential whisper , " that there is a means of communicating with the cellar beneath this room , independently of the door , so that one might go and help one's self to wine without the know- ledge ...
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... inspector had taken for granted had been already done , the examination of her husband's desk . There it stood , just as he had left it not forty - eight hours ago , with the key in it , and a bunch of keys depending from it , among ...
... inspector had taken for granted had been already done , the examination of her husband's desk . There it stood , just as he had left it not forty - eight hours ago , with the key in it , and a bunch of keys depending from it , among ...
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... inspector might not have been so satisfied with his interview as he had pretended to be , and might have taken this means - by no means unnatural to one of his calling - to judge for himself of the reality of the calm- ness and self ...
... inspector might not have been so satisfied with his interview as he had pretended to be , and might have taken this means - by no means unnatural to one of his calling - to judge for himself of the reality of the calm- ness and self ...
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