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And this was the story told by Mrs. Morrice, as she sat facing Lane in the small but elegantly-furnished room of her friend Alma Buckley's flat. She told it throughout in a low voice which now and then broke down, indicating that she was on the verge of tears. For the most part it flowed forth in a continuous narrative, but now and then she paused to answer some question, to give fuller details of some incident, at the detective's request. She informed him at the beginning that although Miss Buckley knew much-she did not know everything-that she was ignorant of the robberies.
Lane thought better of the music-hall artist after that. From the readiness to tell a lie, he had judged her to be a fairly unscrupulous woman, with full knowledge of her friend's criminal acts, probably drawing a handsome share of the proceeds. It was evident that she drew the line at actual lawbreaking.