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"So she wrote an anonymous letter calculated to do harm to the unlucky subject thereof?"

"Yes, and sent it to Sir Richard Wayne Well, once having started she apparently couldn't leave off Her veno fed in this manner; and she wrote one letter after another--you know her ue--until practically everyone in the parish knew a garbled version of Mrs Ogden's sordid little story"

"One moment, Chloe" Major Carstairs had a soldier's ht no one ever owned to having heard it?"

"No one ever did," said Chloe rather bitterly "But the explanation is siden had, before I made my appearance on the scene, repeated the tale to another wo wife of a solicitor whoreat fervour on her first arrival in Littlefield; and this woman had repeated the story to her French land was pleased to make Tochatti's acquaintance; and one day told her the story, of course in strictest confidence Well, the woman, the solicitor's wife, died, almost immediately after that, as the result of a motor accident; and her maid returned to her ho, so far as one can conjecture, passed on the tale to anyone else"

"Yes," said Anstice thoughtfully, as Chloe came to a stop "Quite a siht never have co me," said Carstairsthe letters, and thus seeking to injure a woman whom she considered to be the ene herself to allow you to be suspected, Chloe?"

"Ah, that is where the mystery really comes in, and where, possibly, Dr Anstice's theory of the double personality may be considered" Chloe looked at them both rather dubiously "I confess I can't understand that part of the story myself Tochatti has assured me that she never for an instant dreaht si to soh she admits she had tried to model her script on mine because she admired itas she ad of her shoulders "I really believe she usedme--in fact, if such a supposition could be entertained for a moment, I don't believe she had any very clear idea what she was doing beyond a fixed intention to work harm to the woman she detested"