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"What do you mean, exactly? " queried Sergeant Godfrey.
"If you cast your mind back, Godfrey," enlarged Bannister, "Branston's evidence was pretty much as follows. When he was released from the work-room by his housekeeper after his unexpected imprisonment he rushed to the room where he found Miss Delaney lying dead. Then he described what happened afterwards as a ‘schemozzle. ' That was the actual word used. When I asked him if the gentleman arrived whom he was expecting at half-past two he stated that he never gave him another thought-he lost all sense of the impending appointment as it were. ‘I clean forgot him,' he said. ‘If he came he probably went away'-that was the gist of what Branston said, and it struck me as being perfectly natural. " Godfrey nodded, affirmatively.