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"Your muffler--I'll get it," said Constance. "Cyril, run upstairs and get father's muffler. You know the drawer."
Cyril ran. It behoved everybody, that morning, to be prompt and efficient.
"I don't need any muffler, thank you," said Samuel, coughing and smothering1 the cough.
"Oh! But, Sam--" Constance protested.
"Now please don't worry me!" said Samuel with frigid2 finality. "I've got quite enough--!" He did not finish.
Constance sighed as her husband stepped, nervous and self- important, out of the side-door into the street. It was early, not yet eight o'clock, and the shop still unopened.
"Your father couldn't wait," Constance said to Cyril when he had thundered down the stairs in his heavy schoolboy boots. "Give it to me." She went to restore the muffler to its place.
The whole house was upset, and Amy still an invalid3! Existence was disturbed; there vaguely4 seemed to be a thousand novel things to be done, and yet she could think of nothing whatever that she needed to do at that moment; so she occupied herself with the muffler. Before she reappeared Cyril had gone to school, he who was usually a laggard5. The truth was that he could no longer contain within himself a recital6 of the night, and in particular of the fact that he had been the first to hear the summons of the murderer on the window-pane. This imperious news had to be imparted to somebody, as a preliminary to the thrilling of the whole school; and Cyril had issued forth7 in search of an appreciative8 and worthy9 confidant. He was scarcely five minutes after his father.
In St. Luke's Square was a crowd of quite two hundred persons,

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inspector
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smoothly
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vocation
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constables
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