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Twenty-one TOMMY MAKES A DISCOVERY
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Twenty-one TOMMY MAKES A DISCOVERY
For a moment or two they stood staring at each other stupidly, dazed withthe shock. Somehow, inexplicably1, Mr. Brown had forestalled2 them.
Tommy accepted defeat quietly. Not so Julius.
“How in tarnation did he get ahead of us? That’s what beats me!” heended up.
Tommy shook his head, and said dully:
“It accounts for the stitches being new. We might have guessed. .?.?.”
“Never mind the darned stitches. How did he get ahead of us? Wehustled all we knew. It’s downright impossible for anyone to get herequicker than we did. And, anyway, how did he know? Do you reckon therewas a dictaphone in Jane’s room? I guess there must have been.”
But Tommy’s common sense pointed3 out objections.
“No one could have known beforehand that she was going to be in thathouse—much less that particular room.”
“That’s so,” admitted Julius. “Then one of the nurses was a crook4 andlistened at the door. How’s that?”
“I don’t see that it matters anyway,” said Tommy wearily. “He may havefound out some months ago, and removed the papers, then—No, by Jove,that won’t wash! They’d have been published at once.”
“Sure thing they would! No, someone’s got ahead of us today by an houror so. But how they did it gets my goat.”
“I wish that chap Peel Edgerton had been with us,” said Tommy thought-fully.
“Why?” Julius stared. “The mischief5 was done when we came.”
“Yes—” Tommy hesitated. He could not explain his own feeling—the il-logical idea that the K.C.’s presence would somehow have averted6 thecatastrophe. He reverted7 to his former point of view. “It’s no good arguingabout how it was done. The game’s up. We’ve failed. There’s only onething for me to do.”
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