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When in answer to the inspector's ring the butler appeared in the library and Stone learnt that Lady Hake was in the drawing-room, he requested him to ask her if they could come and speak to her there.
"Less of an ordeal for her," he nodded to the others when Huntley had left upon his errand. He made a grimace. "She must realise we only want to question her because we believe it is possible she may have been the one to shoot her husband."