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So quickly and smoothly had everything happened that the people next door were utterly ignorant of all that had taken place during the progress of the festivities at No 14. Lady Altamont had managed to get the nurse out of the house without arousing the suspicion of anybody.
The whole thing had been most skilfully worked out in that wily brain.