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Preston had impatiently awaited the result of La Planta's cross-examination, and the verdict disappointed him. For secretly he felt convinced still that even if the young man had not directly connived at the money-lender's death, yet that he could throw light on the cause of death if he wished to.
"I cannot help thinking," he said to Yootha while they were discussing the mystery on the day after La Planta's acquittal, "that he knows something too concerning what happened at Henley regatta. I have felt that all along. And had he been found guilty of conniving at Schomberg's death we might have been in a position to escape from what now threatens us. However, I believe that in the end we shall be able to snap our fingers at the people who are trying to blackmail us, so you must try to cheer up, my darling."