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I suppose I should have insisted But her voice was char, her arden I knew long

ago, at horateful to you," she answered Her tone changed "I

understand that, shortly after seven o'clock last Thursday evening, you

heard in the roole Such has been your

testimony to the police?"

"It has," said I

"Are you quite certain as to the hour?" I felt that she was sht it not have been later--or earlier?"

"I am sure it was just after seven," I replied "I'll tell you why: I

had just returned fro Ben

on the House of Parliament struck--"

She raised her hand

"No matter," she said, and there was a touch of iron in her voice

"You are no longer sure of that Thinking it over, you have come to the

conclusion that it may have been barely six-thirty when you heard the

noise of a struggle"