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Detective Larose, having heard all Sam Gover could remember of the night he and Eli Barton were held up and shot near the Coorong Lake, and having deduced that the banditry had been carefully planned, turned again to Gover. "Then how did they come to expect that Mr. Eli would be passing at midnight through the Coorong? Was it his habit to do so?" He shook his head. "No, we know he had never done so before. Plenty of daylight passings, but never by night, never once. Well, how did they know?"
"We didn't know it ourselves until about midday, as I've told you," broke in Sam Gover, "and it was I who suggested it first. Then we telephoned to the Broken Bough and asked them to pass the message through to Meningie."