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In spite of the early hour he found Charles scrubbing the balcony floor to remove the unpleasant evidence of murder. Charles was weary, complained bitterly of his lost sleep, was more voluble about Keller's unpopularity than was discreet in him; and Mr. Blagdon was one of the principal causes of the waiter's discontent. "He's been questioning me all night, and even though I told him I'd been in stir--in fact, Mr. Lorney told him--he's been going on as though he'd found it out by accident and I'd been hiding it up!"
Blagdon had taken one of the rooms as an office. There was a policeman on guard outside of it. T, B. saw the superintendent going in and out, and with every appearance he seemed to gain in importance.