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The Summons

CHAPTER XXXI
15/23

Yet she was found dead with a glass of chloroform arranged between her pillows, so that the fumes must kill her--and Jenny Prask was her maid.

A motor-car took the news of Mrs.Croyle's death to London before it had occurred and took the news from Rackham Park.

There was only one motor-car in the garage--Mrs.Croyle's--and Mrs.Croyle's chauffeur was engaged to Jenny Prask, Mrs.Croyle's maid.

London then telephones to Rackham Park for corroboration of the news, and a woman's voice confirms it--an hour before it was true.

There are only two women to choose from, Mrs.Croyle and Jenny Prask, her maid.


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