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The listeners trembled as they watched Delamere turning the papers over in his hand. If he was right, then a great discovery had been made. But it was open to doubt whether or not these were actually the papers for which Gilbert Doyle had suffered so much.
"There is no shadow of doubt about it," Delamere said presently. "I remember all about the Southern Star affair, because a friend of mine was more or less concerned in it; in fact, some of the stolen property belonged to him--Banbury shares, and so on. The question is, how did the papers get into that box, and why did Miss Winifred Cawdor take such care of it?"