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 England. We cannot try you for the murder of John Minute; you can still be tried for the murder of your unfortunate servants."

Frank Merrill made no movement toward the door. He walked over to the other end of the room, and stood with his back to them. Then he turned. "Sometimes," he said, "I feel that it is n't worth while going on. It has been rather a strain—all this."

Jasper Cole sprang toward him and caught him as he fell. They laid him down, and Saul Arthur Mann called urgently on the telephone or a doctor, but Frank Merrill was dead.

"I knew," said Constable Wiseman, when the story came to him.

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