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The Evil Shepherd

CHAPTER III
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He had been stabbed through the heart with some needle-like weapon, and was quite dead." "Was there any vital cause of quarrel between them ?" Wilmore enquired.
"Impossible to say," Francis replied.

"The financial position of the company depends entirely upon the value of a large quantity of speculative bonds, but as there was only one clerk employed, it was impossible to get at any figures.

Hilditch declared that Jordan had only a small share in the business, from which he had drawn a considerable income for years, and that he had not the slightest cause for complaint." "What were Hilditch's movements that evening ?" Wilmore asked.
"Not a soul seems to have seen him after he left Regent Street," was the somewhat puzzled answer.

"His own story was quite straightforward and has never been contradicted.

He let himself into his house with a latch-key after his return from the Cafe Royal, drank a whisky and soda in the library, and went to bed before half-past eleven.


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