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IT was Mary who telephoned for the doctor, who came half an hour later, stitched and dressed the wound, and confirmed Tim's diagnosis. Whilst he was doing this, with the assistance of a maid, whom Mary had wakened, she went to the door to wait for Tim, who had gone out to make an investigation. He came back with certain interesting items of news.
"For some reason or other Stocker decided to spend the night in the garage. He had the sense to realise, which I hadn't, that this fellow would come back for his overcoat. I found a Windsor chair and a couple of cigar-ends. Stocker had evidently had some difficulty in keeping awake, and may have been asleep when the man came in."