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Inspector Roberts was in his room and greeted Larose anxiously. "Any news? " he asked quickly.
"Yes," nodded the detective, "plenty. The party we want is up there right enough, and as you said, it is only a matter of picking him out. I've had quite a profitable day and there are several lines to follow up. That butler chap has been telling me a lot of lies, and he and the chauffeur are in some dirty business together. The Culloden woman walks in her sleep, and her husband doesn't know whether or not she had a hand in the murder. The doctor's done something he's desperately anxious to hide, and that Gentry Wardle would stick a knife into me if he got the chance. The actor fellow is not straight, and the colonel knows a lot more than he will tell. " He shrugged his shoulders. "In fact, almost every one in that house seems on the defensive. " He pulled a chair up to the inspector's desk and went on in sharp, decisive tones: "But now let me have a look at the dead man's clothes. I want to see his trousers and the keys you found in the pockets."