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I don't know," confessed Tuppence.
Sir James stroked his chin thoughtfully.
The room was in great disorder. That looks as though her flight was
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unpremeditated. Almost as though she got a sudden warning to go from some
one."
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Mr. Brown, I suppose," said Julius scoffingly.
The lawyer looked at him deliberately for a minute or two.
Why not?" he said. "Remember, you yourself have once been worsted by him."
Julius flushed with vexation.
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I feel just mad when I think of how I handed out Jane's photograph to him like a
lamb. Gee, if I ever lay hands on it again, I'll freeze on to it like--like hell!"
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That contingency is likely to be a remote one," said the other dryly.
I guess you're right," said Julius frankly. "And, in any case, it's the original I'm
out after. Where do you think she can be, Sir James?"
The lawyer shook his head.
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Impossible to say. But I've a very good idea where she has been."
You have? Where?"
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Sir James smiled.
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At the scene of your nocturnal adventures, the Bournemouth nursing home."
There? Impossible. I asked."
No, my dear sir, you asked if anyone of the name of Jane Finn had been there.
Now, if the girl had been placed there it would almost certainly be under an
assumed name."
"Bully for you," cried Julius. "I never thought of that!"
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