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Gabriel stared at the detective closely, thinking there was so familiar about him

"Have we met before?" Dr Gibson de

"We have, doctor," Ransoo, Mr Winterborne asked me to watch over you and Lady Helen, as you went on an errand in a dangerous part of town"

"Oh, yes" Dr Gibson’s eyes narrowed "You’re the man who stalked after us and skulked in the shadows, and interfered needlessly as ent to hire a hanso attacked by a pair of dockyard navvies," Ransoently

"I had the situation well in hand," came her brisk reply "I had already dispatched one man, and was about to put away the other, when you ju your pardon," Ransoht need assistance Obviously my assuing tone, "I suppose you could hardly be expected to stand by and let a woile, after all"

A smile flashed in Ransom’s eyes, but disappeared quickly "Doctor, could you briefly describe Lady St Vincent’s wound fora nod of consent frole acute puncture just to the right of the neck, entering an inch above the clavicle and extending three inches deep It pierced the anterior scalene muscle and lacerated the subclavian artery Had the artery been severed completely, it would have caused unconsciousness in ten seconds and death in approxiht "The only reason that didn’t happen," he said, "is because Dragon blocked the forward tug of the knife with his arlanced at the foot to do?"

Dragon spoke while tucking in the loose edge of the e over his arm "As soon as I saw Mrs O’Cairre aiht she would jerk the knife down like a pump handle I once saw a man killed that way in an alley near the club, when I was a boy Never forgot it An odd way to stab soround, and there was no blood"

"The blood would have drained into the chest cavity and collapsed the lung," Dr Gibson said "Quite an efficient way to ," Ransom commented "It’sprofessional The technique requires sohed shortly "I’d like to find out who instructed Mrs O’Cairre how to do it"

"Can you not question her?" Dr Gibson asked

"Unfortunately the detectives with the seniority areit up so badly, it almost seems deliberate The only real inforon when he caught her"

"Which is?" Gabriel asked

"Mrs O’Cairre and her late husband were part of a group of Irish anarchists who aspire to overthrow the government Caipíní an Bháis, they call theroup of the Fenians"