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The Four Pools Mystery

CHAPTER XVII
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Suppose we look into his case a little." He glanced over one of the newspaper slips and tossed it across to me.
"There's a clipping from the 'Baltimore Censor'-- a tolerably conservative journal.

What have you to say in regard to it ?" I picked it up and glanced it over.

It was dated May twenty-third--four days after the murder--and was the same in substance as many other articles I had read in the past week.
"No new evidence has come to light in regard to the sensational murder of Colonel Gaylord whose body was discovered in Luray Cave, Virginia, a few days ago.

The authorities now concur in the belief that the crime was committed by the son of the murdered man.

The accused is awaiting trial in the Kennisburg jail.
"It seems impossible that any man, however depraved, could in cold blood commit so brutal and unnatural a crime as that with which Radnor Gaylord is accused.


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