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THE MORTOVER GRANGE AFFAIR

"No more than you have, mister! But—perhaps you have? Perhaps you know?"

Wedgwood vouchsafed no answer to this, and presently, remarking that he should be there when the Coroner sat next day, Thomas Wraypoole took himself off. The detective shook his head.

"Don't like him—what?" suggested the inspector.

"I don't!" said Wedgwood. "And I don't like what he's told us. One fact's certain, however, by his own admission—he benefits by his brother's death!"