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Poole sat for a while in silence, allowing this significant piece of information to sink into his mind.
"That means, then," he said at last, "that if Sir Garth had died on the evening of the 25th of October instead of the 24th, Miss Inez Fratten would have inherited the whole of the residuary estate of her father -- nearly half a million pounds -- and her brother would have had nothing?"