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The Simpkins Plot

CHAPTER III
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I suppose you still read nothing but _The Times_, and it doesn't publish the portraits of celebrities." "Is Miss King a celebrity?
I never heard of her." "Not under that name; but when I mention that her real name is Mrs.
Lorimer, you'll remember all about her." "The woman who was tried the other day for murdering her husband, and got off." "Precisely," said Meldon.

"I happened, by the merest chance, to have five portraits of her in three different papers.

I compared them carefully with Miss King, and I haven't the slightest doubt that she's the same woman." "You're probably quite mistaken," said the Major.

"Those pictures in the daily papers are never the least like the person they're supposed to represent." "I might have been mistaken, though I very seldom am; but in this case I certainly was not.

She seemed quite pleased when I said I recognised her, and told me frankly that she had murdered several husbands, and hoped to live to murder many more.


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