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The Four Pools Mystery

CHAPTER V
20/21

We both overlooked the little office that opened off the dining-room.

In spite of my manoeuvres the Colonel entered the library first and discovered that the French window was open; he laid no stress on this however, supposing that Mose was the guilty one.

He bolted it with unusual care, and I with equal care slipped back and unbolted it.

I finally persuaded him that Mose's ha'nt was merely the result of a fevered imagination fed on a two weeks' diet of ghost stories, and succeeded in getting him back to bed without discovering Radnor's absence.

I lay awake until I heard the sound of carriage wheels returning across the lawn, and, a few minutes later, footsteps enter the house and tip-toe upstairs.


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