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"A fine mess you made of that! " McCarty remarked disgustedly when the door of Mrs. Goddard's dressing-room had closed behind them, shutting in her husband and the maid. "Just when we were on the point of getting at the truth, too!"
"Truth, is it? " Dennis retorted. "I suppose you mean you'd have been finding out what the crazy guy expected to find in the boy's pockets!"