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Some one dressed like a woman was standing by the stove whistling softly to himself while paring his nails with a pearl-handled knife.
"My brother Bill, sir," said Hughes gruffly, and I thought rather nervously, indicating me with the peaked cloth cap which he carried, rolled scrollwise, in his hand.