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"Mind you," continued the man in the corner, after he had assured himself of my undivided attention, "all these details were unknown to the public at first. I have merely co-ordinated them, and told them to you in the actual sequence in which they occurred, so that you may be able to understand the subsequent events.
"At the time-that is to say, on 3rd December, 1903-the evening papers only contained an account of what was then called ‘the mysterious outrage at Gastle Street, Portsmouth. ' A private gentleman was presumably assaulted and robbed in broad daylight, and inside a highly respectable house in a busy part of the city.