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was suicide, the murderer had a day's start in which to cover his traces, before the in vestigation of the crime began. Soon after discovering his daughter's body, Mr. Page found downstairs in the livingroom a note in her handwriting, evidently meant for him, written on both sides of a piece of paper torn from a small block near at hand, which read as follows: "Have just heard Harold is hurt and is at Massachusetts Hospital. Have gone in twelve o'clock. Will leave key of front side door with key of barn stairs. Will tel ephone to Mrs. Bennett."
The "Massachusetts Hospital" meant the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Mrs. Bennett was a neighbor whose tele phone the Pages occasionally used. It was clear that this message about her brother had been given to her by her assassin, either to get her out of the house, or to explain his presence there, for her brother had met with no accident, but was at his work as usual. The note furnished this important clue to the identity of the mur derer, — it must have been someone who knew that she had a brother who worked in Boston.
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