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"Not when the servant Dorcas repeated certain fragnized?"

"I did not recognize them"

"Your ry, and, I think, said more than we meant I paid very little attention to my mother's actual words"

Mr Philips' incredulous sniff was a triumph of forensic skill He passed on to the subject of the note

"You have produced this note very opportunely Tellof it?"

"Not that I know of"

"Do you not think that it bears a uised?"

"No, I do not think so"

"I put it to you that it is your own hand-writing!"

"No"

"I put it to you that, anxious to prove an alibi, you conceived the idea of a fictitious and rather incredible appointment, and wrote this note yourself in order to bear out your statement!"

"No"