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Without any pause, for I am anxious to avoid all disjointed reflection, I take up the next bundle of papers. This is attached to a long cutting from a local newspaper, and is headed as follows: "An account of what happened at Deignton Court immediately prior to Sir Humphrey's being found dead."
"For my own satisfaction I have extracted from the mass of evidence given at the coroner's inquest a very brief account of all that is known of Sir Humphrey's death. This is the pith of it: