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"Now, gentlemen," said the inspector, when the four of them were seated in the morning room, "there is a certain amount of routine work for me to do, though it may strike you as unimportant. " He smiled slightly towards Roger.
"Not a bit," said that gentleman quickly. "I'm extraordinarily interested in all this. You've no idea how useful it will be if I ever want to write a detective novel."