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Mortmain jumped suddenly from his chair and as suddenly sat down again. Just for a moment it looked as if he were on the verge of a wild outbreak, but, if so, he contained himself and confronted his friend steadily.
"So you think that I murdered my hated rival?" he asked almost coolly. "But, you see, I have already told you that I have never met the man in his lifetime. By an extraordinary coincidence Richard Grimshaw was found dead in this room. Yes, the one man in the world I hated to my very core, the one man I would have given half my fortune to be rid of. And you accuse me of murdering him."