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It was on the eve of the adjourned inquest and Tom Gilchrist was sitting alone in his solitary lodgings waiting for his dinner when the servant came in with the evening paper. Tom picked it up languidly and without much interest until, on the centre page, his eyes caught a flaming headline at the top of a paragraph connected with the Vanguard murder.
Apparently, the police had found a clue, and an important one at that.