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The Stowmarket Mystery

CHAPTER VIII
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She may be impartial, but she is often blind.

Now be friends, and let us start from that basis." Silently the two men exchanged a hearty grip.
"Excellent!" cried the barrister.

"Hume, take Winter with you in front.

I will seat myself beside the groom, and please oblige me, both of you, by not addressing a word to me between here and Stowmarket." Hume and the detective got along comfortably once the ice was broken.
Naturally, they steered clear of all reference to the tragedy in the presence of the servant.

Their talk dealt chiefly with sporting matters.
Brett, carried swiftly along the level road, kept his eyes fixed on Beechcroft and its contiguous hamlet until they vanished in the middle distance.
"This is the most curious inquiry I was ever engaged in," he communed.
"Winter, of course, will fasten on to Capella like a horse leech when he knows the facts.


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