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The Secret Passage

CHAPTER XIV
19/31

But shortly after eight your brother left the theatre: you departed after nine." "I went to see an old friend in the neighborhood," stammered Juliet.
"Ah, and was that neighborhood this one, by any chance?
In a hansom--which I believe you drove away in--one can reach this place from the Marlow Theatre in a quarter of an hour." "I--I--did not come here." "Then where did you go ?" "I decline to say." "Where did your brother go ?" "He did not tell me.

Did the manager inform you of anything else ?" "He merely told me that you and your brother left the theatre as I stated.

You decline to reveal your movements." "I do," said Juliet, clenching her hands and looking pale but defiant.
"My private business can have nothing to do with you.

As you seek to connect me with this case, it is your business to prove what you say.
I refuse to speak." "Will your brother refuse ?" "You had better ask him," said Miss Saxon carelessly, but with an effort to appear light-hearted.

"I don't inquire into my brother's doings, Mr.Jennings." "Yet you heard about his gambling." "I don't see what that has to do with the matter in hand.


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