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Fullaway laid the telegram down on his table and looked from it to the detective.
"Shot dead -- High Street -- this morning? " he said wonderingly. "Why! -- that means, of course, in broad daylight -- in a busy street, I suppose? And yet -- no clue. How could a man be shot dead under such circumstances without the murderer being seen and followed?"