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WHAT DID MRS. PATELLO WANT?
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how persuade, or tempt, or force Thomas Wraypoole to tell him who the man was that he, Thomas, had seen in conversation with his brother John on the evening of the murder, and that man must be found.

"Considering all one now knows," said the inspector, "what you've got to do is to trace John Wraypoole's movements and account for every scrap of his time and in whose company that time was spent, between the moment in which Thomas saw him talking to that man, whoever he is, and his arrival at Miss Tandy's flat! Get on to that, Wedgwood!"

The name of Miss Tandy had scarcely been mentioned by the inspector when a policeman poked his head into the room and announced Miss Tandy herself.