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A fortnight later light was thrown on Blackburn's perplexity by a shrewd question from Mrs. Timberlake. For days he had been groping in darkness, and now, in one instant, it seemed to him that his discovery leaped out in a veritable blaze of electricity. How could he have gone on in ignorance? How could he have stumbled, with unseeing eyes, over the heart of the problem?
"David," said the housekeeper bluntly, "don't you think that this thing has been going on long enough? " They were in the library, and before putting the question, she had closed the door and even glanced suspiciously at the windows.