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"Look here, Esther," said old Salt to his wife, "that's a mighty curious case over at Waring's."
"How you do talk! I should think that to you and me, knowing and loving John Waring as we did, you'd have no doings with the curious part of it! As for me, I don't care who killed him. He's dead, isn't he? It can't bring him back to life to hang his murderer. And to my mind it's heathenish -- all this detectiving and evidencing -- or whatever they call it. Whom do they suspect now? You?"