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Derrick Yale sat with his head on his hands, reading a newspaper. He had read a dozen that morning, and one by one he had cast them aside to open another.
"Under the eyes of the police," he quoted. "Incompetence at Police Headquarters. " He shook his head. "They are giving our poor friend Parr a bad time in this morning's press," he said as he threw the paper aside, "and yet he was as incapable of preventing that crime as you or I, Miss Drummond."