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The Borough Treasurer

CHAPTER X
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They're both as innocent as you are, in all probability.
Granted there's some nasty evidence against Harborough, there's also the presumption--founded on words from her own lips--that Miss Pett expects to benefit by this old man's death.

She's a strong and wiry woman, and you tell me Kitely was getting somewhat enfeebled--she might have killed him, you know.

Murders, my dear fellow, are committed by the most unlikely people, and for curious reasons: they have been committed by quite respectable females--like Miss Pett--for nothing but a mere whim." "Do you really suspect her ?" demanded Bent.

"That's what I want to know." "That's what I shan't tell you," replied Brereton, with a good-humoured laugh.

"All I shall tell you is that I believe this murder to be either an exceedingly simple affair, or a very intricate affair.


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