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He turned to the empty room--"Leave me alone," he whispered.

"For pity's sake leave me alone." The silence that followed was filled with insistent, mysterious urgency.
2 Craven did not come that night to Hall.

Galleon had asked him and Olva to breakfast-the next morning.

He did not appear.
About two o'clock in the afternoon a note was sent round to Olva's rooms.