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The Betrayal

CHAPTER XXII
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Now, indeed, all my convictions were upset.

Colonel Ray had left me outside his clubhouse last night, twenty minutes before the train started, without a word of coming to Braster.

Yet he travelled down by the same train, avoided me, lied to Lady Angela and myself this morning, and had exactly the sort of wounds which I had inflicted upon that unknown assailant who attacked me in the darkness.

If circumstantial evidence went for anything, Ray himself had been my aggressor.
I avoided the turn by Braster Grange and went straight on to the village.

Coming out of the post office I found myself face to face with Blanche Moyat.


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