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"Serves you right!" said Jane placidly "Now, the question is, have the fellows got away or are they hiding somewhere in the house? I think they're still in the house"

"The police!" exclaiue and his other grievances "We nett, withdrawing her fascinated gaze fro which she had been"We must send for the police at once"

"We don't really need theo to bed and just leave un"

"And blow the whole house to pieces!" said Mrs Hignett tartly She had begun to revise her original estiirl To her, Windles was sacred, and anyone ent about shooting holes in it forfeited her estee them back in ten minutes in the car"

"Certainly not!" said Mr Bennett "My daughter gadding about all over the countryside in an autoht!"

"If you think I ought not to go alone, I could take Bream"

"Where is Brea those present suddenly presented itself to the cohed the wholesoh to see the humor of the situation even when the joke is at her expense

"What a silly girl I am!" she said "I do believe that was Brea a mistake like that!"

"You shot my only son!" cried Mr Mortimer

"I shot at hih how I came to do it beats me I don't suppose I've missed a sitter like that since I was a child in the nursery Of course," she proceeded, looking on the reasonable side, "the visibility wasn't good, and I fired frohtn't at least to have winged hiht" She shook her head with a touch of self-reproach "I shall be chaffed about this if it coretfully