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“Warn all shopkeepers to keep a sharp lookout for new bills in the money they receive,” was Dr. Talbot’s comment to the constable. “Fresh ten-and twenty-dollar bills are none too common in this town. And now about her will. Did you draw that up, Harvey?”
“No. I did not know she had made one. I often spoke to her about the advisability of her doing so, but she always put me off. And now it seems that she had it drawn up in Boston. Could not trust her old friend with too many secrets, I suppose.”
“So you don’t know how her money has been left?”
“No more than you do.”
Here an interruption occurred. The door opened and a slim young man, wearing spectacles, came in. At sight of him they all rose.
“Well?” eagerly inquired Dr. Talbot.
“Nothing new,” answered the young man, with a consequential air. “The elder woman died from loss of blood consequent upon a blow given by a small, three-sided, slender blade; the younger from a stroke of apoplexy, induced by fright.”
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“No.”
“Strange!” fell from the lips of his two listeners,link. “She lived, yet gave no alarm.”
“None that was heard,” suggested the young doctor, who was from another town.
“Or, if heard, reached no ears but Philemon’s,” observed the constable. “Something must have taken him up-stairs.”
“I am not so sure,” said the coroner, “that Philemon is not answerable for the whole crime, notwithstanding our failure to find the missing money anywhere in the house,fake uggs. How else account for the resignation with which she evidently met her death? Had a stranger struck her, Agatha Webb would have struggled,shox torch 2. There is no sign of struggle in the room.”
“She would have struggled against Philemon had she had strength to struggle. I think she was asleep when she was struck.”
“Ah! And was not standing by the table? How about the blood there, then?”
“Shaken from the murderer’s fingers in fright or disgust.”
“There was no blood on Philemon’s fingers.”
“No; he wiped them on his sleeve.”
“If he was the one to use the dagger against her, where is the dagger? Should we not be able to find it somewhere about the premises?”
“He may have buried it outside. Crazy men are super naturally cunning.”
“When you can produce it from any place inside that board fence, I will consider your theory. At present I limit my suspicions of Philemon to the half-unconscious attentions which a man of disordered intellect might give a wife bleeding and dying under his eyes. My idea on the subject is ——”
“Would you be so kind as not to give utterance to your ideas until I have been able to form some for myself?” interrupted a voice from the doorway.
As this voice was unexpected, they all turned. A small man with sleek dark hair and expressionless features stood before them. Behind him was Abel, carrying a hand-bag and umbrella.
“The detective from Boston,” announced the latter. Coroner Talbot rose.
“You are in good time,” he remarked. “We have work of no ordinary nature for you.”
The man failed to look interested. But then his countenance was not one to show emotion.

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