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The Four Pools Mystery

CHAPTER XIII
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"Jake" Henley, the stable boy, was called.

His testimony practically covered the same ground and corroborated what the landlord had said.
"You say he swore at you for being slow ?" the coroner asked.
Jake nodded with a grin.

"I don't remember just the words--I get swore at so much that it don't make the impression it might--but it was good straight cussin' all right." "And he struck you as being agitated ?" Jake's grin broadened.

"I think you might say agitated," he admitted guardedly.

"He was mad enough to begin with, an' now the brandy was gettin' to work.


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