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When Freda overheard the words which told her the police were on the track of the murderer, she did not lose a moment in making her way back to the Abbey. Mrs. Bean opened the inner gate, as usual, and was alarmed by the look on the girl's face.
"Why, what's come to you, child? " she said. "Where have you been? Has anybody frightened you again?"