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"Show me what? " Alec exclaimed, bounding out of his chair.
"How the murderer escaped," Roger repeated, turning and smiling happily at his dumbfounded accomplice. "It's extraordinarily simple, really. That's why we never spotted it. Have you ever noticed, Alec, that it's always the simple things of life -- plans, inventions, what you like -- that are the most effective? Take, for instance -- "