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Before the day was over, Gerard and Audrey learned fuller details of the confederacy into whose net both of them had so cleverly been drawn.
From the first moment when, a month previously, the police had got upon the traces of Mr. Candover as the actual forger of the cheques by means of which Sir Richmond Hornthwaite had been robbed, they had been working silently, and with the knowledge of Lord Clanfield and Mr. Masson, to bring the arch-scoundrel to justice.