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It was after nine when Plummer returned. The rector had just rejoined / Hewitt in the study, having left poor Miss Creswick, utterly broken / down, in her room, in charge of a scarcely less terrified servant. / Plummer tapped, and pushed the study door open.
"That's done clean and sure enough," he said, with professional / calmness. "And he's a cool hand, is that Dr. Lawson. But have you found / anything more? We shall want all we can get."