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"I certainly have seen the certificate," Jimmy admitted.
"Very well then," Bascoe went on. "Make the worst of it if you like, say that I am in desperate need of money, and that I induced my wife to sign those papers so that I might have the handling of a large sum of money, of which she knew nothing. But dash it all, she is my wife, and if there is any charge of conspiracy her evidence against me is inadmissible. I don't know how it is that she comes to be standing here when she is supposed to be dead and buried, but as I have no intention of doubting my own eyesight, I am taking her for granted. Now, suppose I send a message to the police informing them that the girl they knew as Constance Wakefield is still above ground, what will happen then? They are bound to arrest her on a charge of trying to take my life, a charge she will have some difficulty in disproving."