ed, that the deceased gentleman may ha

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 a position afterwards to renew their attempt. That would fully explain
the facts, would it not?" The whole inexplicable tangle seemed to
straighten out before me. I wondered, as I always did, how it had not
been obvious to me before. "But why should one servant return?" "We can
imagine that in the confusion of flight something precious, something
which he could not bear to part with, had been left behind. That would
explain his persistence, would it not?" "Well, what is the next step?"
"The next step is the note received by Garcia at the dinner. It
indicates a confederate at the other end. Now, where was the other end?
I have already shown you that it could only lie in some large house, and
that the number of large houses is limited. My first days in this
village were devoted to a series of walks in which in the intervals of
my botanical researches I made a reconnaissance of all the large houses
and an examination of the family history of the occupants. One house,
and only one, riveted my attention. It is the famous old Jacobean grange
of High Gable, one mile on the farther side of Oxshott, and less than
half a mile from the scene of the tragedy. The other mansions belo
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