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"He's a blatant idiot, with lucid moments. And in one of those rare moments of lucidity he told me about Lady Wrenwyck. You agree with me, I am sure, that, at any cost, he must be kept from Miss Monkton."
Such was Smeaton's pithy summing-up of his late visitor to Austin Wingate, who had hurried round on receipt of an urgent note from the detective.