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"Murder," said Garrett

"Murder most foul," said Stendahl

A woman screamed Miss Pope ran up, her face the color of a cheese "The led by an ape and stuffed up a chimney!"

They looked and saw the long yellow hair trailing down from the flue Garrett cried out

"Horrid!" sobbed Miss Pope, and then ceased crying She blinked and turned "Miss Blunt!"

"Yes," said Miss Blunt, standing there

"But I just saw you crammed up the flue!"

"No," laughed Miss Blunt "A robot of myself A clever facsimile!"

"But, but"

"Don't cry darling I'ht Let me look at myself Well, so there I am! Up the chimney Like you said Isn't that funny?"

Miss Blunt walked away, laughing

"Have a drink, Garrett?"

"I believe I will That unnerveddown For a moment there"

Garrett drank

Another scream Mr Steffens, borne upon the shoulders of four white rabbits, was carried down a flight of stairs which ically appeared in the floor Into a pit went Mr Steffens, where, bound and tied, he was left to face the advancing razor steel of a great pendulum which nohirled down, down, closer and closer to his outraged body