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your inclination?"
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Well, that depends."
"No secret hobby?" she asked. "Tell me--you're drawn to something? Every
one is--usually something absurd."
You'll laugh at me."
She smiled.
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Perhaps."
Well, I've always had a secret hankering to be a detective!"
The real thing--Scotland Yard? Or Sherlock Holmes?"
Oh, Sherlock Holmes by all means. But really, seriously, I am awfully
drawn to it. I came across a man in Belgium once, a very famous detective,
and he quite inflamed me. He was a marvellous little fellow. He used to say
that all good detective work was a mere matter of method. My system is
based on his--though of course I have progressed rather further. He was a
funny little man, a great dandy, but wonderfully clever."
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Like a good detective story myself," remarked Miss Howard. "Lots of
nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last chapter. Every one
dumbfounded. Real crime--you'd know at once."
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There have been a great number of undiscovered crimes," I argued.
Don't mean the police, but the people that are right in it. The family. You
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couldn't really hoodwink them. They'd know."
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Then," I said, much amused, "you think that if you were mixed up in a
crime, say a murder, you'd be able to spot the murderer right off?"
"Of course I should. Mightn't be able to prove it to a pack of lawyers. But I'm
certain I'd know. I'd feel it in my fingertips if he came near me."
"It might be a 'she,'" I suggested.
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Might. But murder's a violent crime. Associate it more with a man."
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