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Through the evidence and gossip that surrounded the case, by information gleaned from an articulate police official, by deduction and inference--without which any chronicler is a dunce--there was no difficulty in reconstructing the procedure preliminary to Lady Tattingwood's party.
The impending week-end at Tattingwood Hall was noted by the Yard. After the years of comparative freedom from robberies upon jewel owners, which had followed the smashing of Cammi Grizard's and Leiser Guttwirth's gangs just before the war, there had been recently a recrudescence of such depredations. It looked as if the lesser gangs which had been disrupted in the late twenties, by the arrest and conviction of the master spirits, were attempting re-organisation around new leaders.