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THE MORTOVER GRANGE AFFAIR

Janet Clagne had quite recently returned from a visit to London. Had all these things anything to do with the affair that he had in hand? Perhaps—but it needed a good deal of further work and disentanglement of hard knots before he could see exactly how. Also, Wedgwood had come to a point at which he wanted local help—that fact sent him, as soon as he had dined that evening, and when darkness had fallen, to the private house of the local superintendent of police.