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The Circular Study

CHAPTER VIII
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This paper has been recovered, and will be read at the inquest.

Perhaps a few favored persons may be granted the opportunity of reading it before then, notably yourself.
Of the two letters the latter naturally occasioned the greater excitement in the recipient.

The complacency of Miss Butterworth was superb, and being the result of something that could not be communicated to those about her, occasioned in the household much speculation as to its cause.
At Police Headquarters more than one man was kept busy listening to the idle tales of a crowd of would-be informers.

The results which had failed to follow the first day's publication of the crime came rapidly in during the second.

There were innumerable persons of all ages and conditions who were ready to tell how they had seen this and that one issue from Mr.Adams's house on the afternoon of his death, but when asked to give a description of these persons, lost themselves in generalities as tedious as they were unprofitable.


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